Canada's Justin Trudeau Issues Formal Apology, Awards Al-Qaeda Terrorist Convicted Of Slaughtering U.S. Serviceman $10.5 Million.
Canada's Justin Trudeau Issues Formal Apology, Awards Al-Qaeda Terrorist Convicted Of Slaughtering U.S. Serviceman $10.5 Million.
trudeau is NOT far left.
secondly, what is a country like america doing having foreign prisons with no due process and humiliation techniques if it calls itself a country that follows the rule of law? o wait i forgot america is an empire, and is the leading terror state and terrorist organization in the world.
and americans wonder why people want to attack them LOL
“Canada should be commended for taking this step,” said Laura Pitter, senior national security counsel for Human Rights Watch. “Unfortunately, the U.S. government, most responsible for Khadr’s mistreatment, has failed to fulfill its obligation to provide compensation and redress, not just in Khadr’s case but in the case of scores of other men wrongfully detained and tortured in U.S. custody.”
He became the youngest prisoner ever held at Guantánamo Bay.
Instead of treating Khadr like a child soldier and demanding his rehabilitation, the Canadian government sent intelligence agents to interrogate him. According
court affidavits, Khadr told visiting Canadian officials that he had
confessed under torture. He claims to have shown them his injuries, but the officials refused to help.
And Canada is not alone. In 2008, Sweden
paid $500,000 to a former terror suspect for handing him over to U.S. officials in 2002, who sent him to Egypt to be tortured. In 2010, Britain agreed to pay millions of pounds to
16 former Guantánamo detainees because of its role in their U.S. detention. The same year, Australia reached an settlement with Mamdouh Habib – an Australian national held at Guantánamo — for an undisclosed amount of money.
The U.S., however, has yet to pay out a cent in legal settlements to the
roughly 700 men it has released from Guantánamo Bay who were all held without charge. And the U.S. has never compensated, let alone apologized, to any of its post-9/11 torture victims.
“There are
real constitutional questions that are raised by leaving people without any remedy for constitutional violations,” Ladin said.
The Obama administration invoked the
state secrets privilege in 2010 to block a lawsuit against a Boeing subsidiary for helping the CIA transport detainees to its global network of secret prisons.
The extreme difficulty of holding U.S. officials accountable has enabled abuses beyond torture and indefinite detention. Despite sending some victims money under the table, the
Obama administration has repeatedly argued in court that drone strike victims should not be allowed to sue the government for damages."
The Country Paying Omar Khadr $10 Million in Compensation Is Not the One That Tortured Him