Canada reaffirms support for Khadr’s Guantánamo Bay detention and prosecution (15-year old)

[IndianaGreen]

I am not surprised that a country that routinely incarcerates and executes mentally impaired prisoners and people that committed crimes as juveniles, would now resort to label a 15-year old a "terrorist" and proceed with the death penalty-loving kangaroo court in the Guantanamo concentration camp.

If the day ever comes when the working class takes power in America, those government officials that committed war crimes and crimes against humanity will meet the wrath of the people, and people's justice, with the same measure of mercy that they gave to their victims.

In face of new evidence child-detainee was abused and tortured

Canada reaffirms support for Khadr’s Guantánamo Bay detention and prosecution

By Graham Beverley and Keith Jones
19 July 2008

In all seven hours of video footage were publicly released this past Tuesday. They document the interrogation that CSIS agents carried out of the then 16 year-old Khadr over four days in February 2003.

The footage has been heavily redacted to prevent identification of the three CSIS agents involved and to otherwise conform with the “national security” provisions of the Canada Evidence Act.

At the beginning of the first session, Khadr is relieved to learn that his interrogators, who have brought him fast food and soft drinks to win his cooperation, are Canadians. He says with evident relief, “I’ve been requesting the Canadian government for a long time.”

But Khadr’s mood will undergo a 180-degree change as he comes to realize that the CSIS agents are utterly indifferent to his plight and merely want to extract information from him.

Khadr tells the CSIS agents that the admissions he made to US officials were due to extended torture and abuse. But the CSIS interrogator dismisses Khadr’s assertions.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jul2008/khad-j19.shtml