Campaign (in Canada) to give army deserters refuge persists

[Bragi]

CTV.ca News Staff

NDP MP Bill Siksay is lending his support to a campaign aimed at allowing a growing number of American military deserters to find refuge in Canada.

According to the British Columbia MP, the issue resonates with a lot of Canadians. For example, Siksay told CTV's Canada AM early Wednesday, Canadians are widely opposed to the prison abuse reported at the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay prisons.

"They're (also) outraged at the failure to produce any weapons of mass destruction, since that was one of the main reasons for going into this war," he added.

So far, that support has translated into 15,000 signatures on a petition organized by the community-based War Resisters Support Campaign.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1119448188359_114857388/?hub=Canada

[merwin]

1. Uh, it was THE reason to go to war. It was the ONLY one given.

[Peace Patriot]

2. Pay attention to this antiwar movement in Canada. It is very big. No

Canadian official can survive cruelly tossing American war resisters back into the dirty, murderous hands of the Bush Cartel. There is also a soldier refuge movement in Ireland.

Here are some direct sources on the Canadian movement::

http://www.jeremyhinzman.net/

www.resisters.ca
email [e-mail]

War Resister Support Campaign at tel. [phone].

Gerry Condon
Right To Resist / Project Safe Haven
[e-mail]
[phone]