The International Criminal Court in The Hague. Photo by OSeveno/Wikimedia Commons. “The [war crimes] tribunal was an important judicial tool, and I had enough support from President Clinton, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Secretary of Defence William Cohen, and other top officials in Washington to wield it like a battering
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Canadian Dimension: International criminal justice bares its colonial fangs
Photo by Rick Bajornas/United Nations/Flickr The inhuman manner in which the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) treats Rwandans who have been acquitted or who have been freed after serving their sentences obliges us to reexamine totally the body created by the UN Security Council in 1995 in
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Former Rwandan Foreign Affairs Minister Jérôme Bicamumpaka (left) with his family. Photo supplied. A serious injustice is occurring under our noses. Canada is part of it and has the key to a rapid solution. It is the case of former Rwandan Foreign Affairs Minister Jérôme Bicamumpaka, who was acquitted of
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Troops on the streets of Montréal during the 1970 October Crisis. Photo courtesy of the Montreal Gazette. When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, faced with Canada-wide standoffs over the Coastal Gaslink pipeline project, declared “There is no question of sending the Army against Canadian citizens,” alarm bells should have gone off
Continue readingCanadian Dimension | Articles: Canada’s Glass House and Quebec’s Charter Debate
The worst aspect of the Quebec’s Charter debate is the smug, self-righteous, paternalist, finger wagging of English Canada and the English media in Quebec. Canadians don’t realize that they live in a glass house and throwing stones can be dangerous. Self-examination and self-criticism might show that English Canada is a
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