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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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 Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 3:59 pm Post subject: Rwanda genocide charges in Canada |
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Could we be making up for letting the damn thing go in the first place:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4362498.stm
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A Rwandan living in Toronto has been charged with war crimes in relation to the genocide in his home country.
Desire Munyaneza, 39, made a brief appearance at a court in Montreal where the charges were read out to him.
They include two counts of genocide, two of crimes against humanity and three of war crimes, all related to the genocide of 1994.
About 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered by Hutu extremists in one of the century's worst massacres.
Mr Munyaneza was living at the time in the Rwandan city of Butare.
He is accused of having played an instrumental role in the militia that carried out part of the genocide.
'Surreal'
Jean-Paul Nwinlinkwaya, part of the Rwandan community in Canada, lost his father and other family members in the genocide.
"It was a surreal moment for me and for the other members of the Rwandan community here in Canada, who have been involved in seeking justice for 10 years now, and we just never thought this moment would ever come," he said outside the Montreal courtroom.
Mr Munyaneza arrived in Canada in 1996. He applied for political asylum but was turned down by the Canadian immigration authorities.
Around the same time, police launched their investigation into Mr Munyaneza's alleged war crimes after tip-offs from members of the Rwandan community.
Mr Munyaneza is the first person to be charged under Canadian legislation, which became law in 2000, recognising the country's obligations to the United Nations international criminal court.
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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| If Canada is going to prosecute Africans for genocide, we should go back and revisit the torture/murder of Shidane Arone, the teenager that was tortured to death by Canada's finest. The whole matter was swept under the rug and no one really payed for the crime and the cover up. |
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I agree but that is so unlikely I would not hold my breath, babysteps I guess. |
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Manner of Speaking
Joined: 09 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 2:16 am Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| If Canada is going to prosecute Africans for genocide, we should go back and revisit the torture/murder of Shidane Arone, the teenager that was tortured to death by Canada's finest. The whole matter was swept under the rug and no one really payed for the crime and the cover up. |
I'm not so sure about that:
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The first event of the Somalia Affair occurred on March 13, 1993 when two members of the "rogue commando", Master Corporal Clayton Matchee and Trooper (Private) Kyle Brown, caused the death of a Somali teenage infiltrator Shidane Arone who had been caught trying to sneak into the Canadian camp. In the absence of any Somali law or enforcement mechanism, he had been detained in the custody of the "rogue commando", where overnight he was tortured and died at the hands of his two assigned guards.
Matchee and Brown were quickly arrested and charged with the murder and the Canadian Forces' National Defence Headquarters were advised. Trophy-type photos of a bloodied Arone with a grinning Matchee had been taken by a reluctant Brown and were subsequently broadcast widely in the Canadian media. The Canadian public was shocked. MCpl Matchee later attempted suicide, making him unfit to stand trial; Brown was found guilty of manslaughter.
However, the political situation in Canada at the time was sensitive, with Minister of National Defence Kim Campbell in the midst of a leadership campaign to replace Brian Mulroney as leader of the ruling Progressive Conservative Party, and a federal election expacted in the near future. Public relations relating to the incident were immediately taken over by Department of National Defence (DND) officials in Ottawa. There was a "feeding frenzy" of media attention, inspired in large part by the political campaign and the resultant change in party leadership and, later, of government. DND officials were subsequently accused by the media of having "covered up" the incident in order to protect the minister's leadership bid. Whatever efforts to this effect had actually existed merely exacerbated the situation, further focusing the media's attention and causing the public to believe that the incident was more than the result of a "few bad apples". The incident lent credence to other exaggerated suggestions of military misconduct throughout the Forces.
Charges subsequently laid against members of the CAR suggested that sixteen people had passed through the area where Arone was tortured and that, during the night, his screams could be heard throughout the surrounding area. The commander of the "rogue commando" and a number of his subordinate supervisors were court-martialed and found guilty under article 124 of the National Defence Act (Negligent Performance of Duties). The Commanding Officer of the CAR, LCol Mathieu, was tried twice by courts-martial and acquitted of wrong-doing both times. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia_Affair#Death_of_Shidane_Arone |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 2:26 am Post subject: |
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| Wasn't the entire unit disbanded? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:53 am Post subject: |
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| some waygug-in wrote: |
| Wasn't the entire unit disbanded? |
After some hazing video came out where people had KKK written on them or something... The Canadian Forces became home to a large number of white supremacists in Canada, trying to learn skills for the coming "race war". It was despicable. |
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