[Peace-discuss] Fwd: i can't post to Peace but people should know about this.

[Karen Medina]

Former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks about national security in
Washington, 05/21/09. (photo: Reuters)
Will Dick Cheney Be Arrested for War Crimes in Canada?

By Jodie Gummow, AlterNet

30 October 13

he international group, Lawyers Against War, has urged Canadian authorities
to arrest former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney for war crimes when he
arrives at the Toronto Global Forum this week, Huffington Post
reported.<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/29/dick-cheney-canada-arrest_n_4175180.html?utm_hp_ref=politics>

The anti-war group wrote a
letter<http://www.lawyersagainstthewar.org/PolTor.pdf> to
the Attorney General John Gerretsen and Police Chief Bill Blair saying it
was their duty to arrest Cheney, "as a person suspected on reasonable
grounds of authorizing, counseling, aiding, abetting and failing to prevent
torture."

"Once Richard (Dick) Cheney enters Canada … Canada must ensure that Dick
Cheney is either investigated and prosecuted for the indictable offence of
torture in Canada or extradited to another country willing and able to do
so," Lawyers Against the War's Gail Davidson
wrote.<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/29/dick-cheney-canada-arrest_n_4175180.html>

Cheney was a "big supporter" of waterboarding and other unlawful
interrogation techniques during his vice presidency, in which thousands of
people were tortured, kidnapped and assassinated based on his instruction.

Last year, the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal
convicted<https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/13> Cheney,
as well as former U.S. President George W. Bush and six other Bush
administration officials in absentia of war crimes including torture and
cruelty.

Cheney's visit is likely to spark large protests. In September 2011, he was
barricaded during large protests on a visit to Vancouver, where demonstrators
blocked<http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/09/26/dick-cheney-vancouver-protest_n_982410.html?just_reloaded=1>him
from leaving an exclusive hotel for several hours before police were able
to evacuate him. Subsequently, he
cancelled<http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/cheney-cancels-speech-in-canada-due-to-safety-concerns-1.781046>
a
trip to Toronto in March 2010 citing safety concern, which led to large
protests.




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