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Harper government stalling child soldier’s return from Guantanamo
The Guantanamo Bay penal colony is notorious as a venue where the human rights of those captive there are periodically violated.
This is why Canadians have taken a keen interest in the plight of Canadian citizen Omar Khadr who at age 15 was kidnapped at gunpoint from Afghanistan by US troops and spirited off to the notorious torture site.
“Critics accuse the Harper government of dragging its heals and failing to ensure the return of the child soldier to Canada in an expeditious fashion.”
The mainstream media in Canada claim, invariably without data or evidence, that Canadians are divided over whether or not Khadr should be repatriated to Canada. So Press TV took to the streets of Calgary to gauge the public’s opinion.
Most of the members of the public we interviewed seemed keen to see the Canadian government comply with domestic and international law and ensure the child soldier’s swift return to Canada.
Although Khadr confessed to having killed a member of the forces who attacked his country experts claim that the legal proceedings which have taken place in the torture camp have not been objective.
Experts also draw attention to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which Canada is a signatory, which implies that child soldiers such as Omar Khadr ought to be treated as victims of war rather than as combatants, as both the US and Canadian government have, perhaps unlawfully, been doing.
Source: Press TV, 17 Sept 2012
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“Child soldier”? When U.S. forces invaded Afghanistan, they wanted to collect as many “terrorists” as possible, so they offered cash to the locals. “Point out anyone who annoys you, or who you would like to get rid of so you can steal his house and his wife. We’ll pay you five bucks a head.”
In this way the USA rounded up countless innocent civilians and stuffed them into dungeons like Guantanamo. The article above calls these innocent civilians “soldiers" -- as in “child soldier.”
I would “confess” too, if the invaders said they would reduce my torture if I “confessed.”
Yes, for the imperialists, their theft and genocide is always “liberation” and “the spreading of democracy.” Therefore POWs do not exist, and there is no foreign resistance. There is no Green Resistance in Libya, for example. There are only “terrorists,” "extremists," “insurgents,” and “illegal combatants.”