"Many Canadians don't realize that we have not only the right but the responsibility to pursue these charges, it is a responsibility that the Canadian government owes not only to the people of Canada, but to the people of the world. The 1987 Convention Against Torture [And Other Cruel, Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment] binds us to this action." Canada ratified the UN Convention on Torture along with 139 other nations; promising to protect the inalienable right of all the world's citizens to live a life free of torture.
What is happening is that Ms. Davidson and Lawyers Against the War have laid charges against George Bush Jr; accusing him of aiding, abetting, and counseling the commission of torture. This charge is based on the abuses of the prisoners held at the U.S. prisons in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and Abu-Ghraib, Iraq including Canadian minor Omar Khadr, who has been held in Cuba since 2001.
I believe that the citizens of Canada and the world will support what we are trying to do, and will voice their outrage. We want people to know and participate in what we are doing."
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Pages
Powered by Blogger.
Blog Archive
-
▼
2005
(5762)
-
▼
October
(386)
- July 7 Tube bomber argued with cashier shortly bef...
- Rich Senators Defeat Minimum-Wage Hike
- Israel's nuclear arsenal causes global crisis
- Bush nominates Samuel Alito for Supreme Court
- Bush's commitment to honesty
- Possible New Moons for Pluto
- Hunger In America Rises By 43 Percent Over Last Fi...
- Paris riots prompt extra security
- Trial set to begin to decide constitutionality of ...
- Doesn't surprise anyone who's been paying attention
- Thousands of evacuees face eviction
- U.N. Security Council Passes Syria Resolution
- Canada discovers H5 avian flu virus in wild birds
- Prep for Dictatorship?
- The Voice of the White House
- The Sound Of Silence
- I warned Bush about Iraq: Italy's PM
- Italian laboratory clones 14 pigs
- Fall of a Vulcan
- Kabbalah guru arrested for fraud
- Prince Charles to plead Islam's cause to Bush
- The mystery of the eye
- Bush, Rumsfeld could be indicted under US law
- Royal Air Force officer to be tried before a milit...
- True Jews hate Israel: Iran's Jewish MP
- Scientists aim to beat flu with genetically modifi...
- Coordinated explosions in India's capital kill 49
- Meet Cheney's New Chief of Staff
- 10 Mind-Numbing Quotes By Tom Delay
- Israeli troops mass outside Gaza
- Russia, China call for U.S. troops to go
- Plague-infected mice escape from Jersey lab
- Retired Air Force Col: They lied to us about the w...
- Who murdered Hariri to provoke hostilities with Sy...
- An Iran-Russia-China axis?
- Mind Meld for Sat Sort
- Strong, Sweet Smell Reported in Manhattan
- Libby indicted
- The first European pyramid discovered in Bosnia
- Israel asks U.N. to expel Iran
- IAF kills 7 Palestinians in northern Gaza air strike
- Here comes BETA
- Miers Withdraws Nomination
- Negroponte Unveils Intelligence Strategy
- The Real Indictment of Dick Cheney
- Was Galileo Wrong?
- Aide to Cheney Appears Likely to Be Indicted; Rove...
- U.S. passports with chip implants in 2006
- If Fox News Had Been Around Throughout History
- Powerful Government Accounting Office report confi...
- Senate Bill 1873: Prescription for Tyranny
- Israel still in control of Gaza, says envoy
- Torture Is Continuing; Order Came From Very Top
- Russia says will defend Syria against UN sanctions
- The real price of gold
- Remote Control Device 'Controls' Humans
- Terror returns to Israel
- Two-Thirds of Americans Say Bush Wrong on Iraq
- "This is like the Third World"
- Galloway rejects senate perjury claims
- Syria is being Set Up to Fail
- If Dick Cheney Goes
- Unleash the Weasels
- God, Iraq and the power of the President's PR
- Inside The Church of Hate
- Rupert Murdoch and Judith Miller
- US detainees 'murdered' during interrogations
- U.S. military death toll topped 2,000
- OPEC And The Economic Conquest Of Iraq
- Al Franken: Rove and Libby will be executed for tr...
- Backlash against free internet calls
- Israel mounts new strikes in Gaza after attacks
- Indictments are coming
- Recovery From Wilma Begins for Millions
- Kucinich Uses House Procedure To Demand Documents ...
- The 911 South Tower Airliner 'PODS'
- Cheney Told Aide of C.I.A. Officer, Notes Show
- Cindy Sheehan plans to tie herself to the White Ho...
- Big brother on campus
- Blogs: No Longer Safe for Work
- U.S. Ranks 44th in Worldwide Press Freedom Index
- FBI Papers Indicate Intelligence Violations
- Protecting the Presidential Seal. No Joke
- 20% of Human Genes Have Been Patented, Study Reveals
- Journalists' Hotel in Baghdad Attacked
- Bush names Bernanke to replace Greenspan
- Bird Flu Scam
- 6M Without Power
- US, UK urge action against Syria
- Another Military Blogger Silenced
- An Unholy Alliance?
- Murdoch: Don't Fox With Local News
- Props and Puppets
- Censored Again
- Author challenges the official story of 9/11
- Europe is hanging by a thread
- Australia: Leaked "Anti-Terrorism" Bill details dr...
- The Dangerously Incomplete Hariri Report
- NSC Chief Hadley asked Italy for a Bashar Replacement
- THE COMING HURRICANE FITZGERALD...
-
▼
October
(386)
0 comments:
Post a Comment