Ottawa seeks help in finding 30 suspected war criminals

[styky]

Mugesera to ask to be released while he fights to stay in Canada


The Gazette January 16, 2012 9:05 AM

MONTREAL - Léon Mugesera is expected to ask the Immigration and Refugee Board on Monday to allow him to return home while he fights to stay in Canada.

On Saturday, the Canada Border Services Agency arrested and detained Mugesera, alleged to have incited the 1994 Rwandan genocide, after he was released from a Quebec City hospital, the CBSA said in a statement Saturday.

“All individuals detained by the CBSA will have their detention reviewed by the Immigration and Refugee Board ... within 48 hours,” the CBSA said.

Mugesera’s family says he has been transferred to an immigration detention centre in Laval that houses people who are awaiting deportation.

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[styky]

Horse hockey we're stuck with him. Drop him off at the UN, end of story.

Canada could be stuck with alleged Rwandan war criminal
http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/Articl ... ?e=3437295

[styky]

Street thug from most wanted list arrested
By Tom Godfrey, QMI Agency



Damion Rami Butler

TORONTO - A street thug who was one of Canada's most wanted criminals has been arrested in Brantford, Ont. where he had been hiding to avoid deportation to Jamaica, police say.

Damion Rami Butler, 28, of Toronto, was sought on a Canada-wide warrant for removal because he is inadmissible to Canada for drug trafficking, three counts of failure to comply with recognizance and mischief over $5,000 in Canada.

Officials said Butler was nabbed on Thursday in Brantford by the RCMP and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). He had refused to leave Canada when ordered and went underground.

Police said Butler was turned over to Peel Regional Police to face charges and will be deported from Canada. ................http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2012/ ... 73491.html

[wildernessvoice]

This is racist...I denounce all involved in this...is this not against the lieberal egalitarian mantra, the sacred politically correct cow of multicultism to report criminals in a way that demonstrates specific races are over represented in such things?

Now Edward. They second guessed your complaint.
They put "POWELL, Stanley Lewis " in tthe list as the token white male.

[styky]

There goes another one
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.



Deported Mugesera en route to Rwanda: foreign minister
CTVNews.ca

A man accused of crimes related to the Rwandan genocide who has been fighting for 16 years to stay in Canada was sent to an airport Monday afternoon to be deported.

Canadian officials said Leon Mugesera was sent to a Montreal airport and border-services agents were on standby to deport the man back to Rwanda.

While there were tears at the airport from Mugesera's relatives, there were expressions of joy in Rwanda that he will finally be tried for his alleged crimes.

"Leon Mugesera's deportation, while decades past due, is welcome news for a people committed to healing and justice," Rwanda's Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo said in a Tweet.

"Canada did the right thing." ................http://winnipeg.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local ... nnipegHome

[styky]

Canada risks being seen as pandering to mass murders

By: The Red Deer Advocate
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinio ... 51454.html
Posted: 01/28/2012 1:00 AM | Comments: 1 (including replies)

Here's an ethical dilemma for you: does a person who may face torture deserve more compassion than hundreds of thousands of innocent murder victims?

Apparently Canada's immigration laws can't make a distinction or, if it does, seems to consider the threat of torture more inhumane. At least that seems the case by allowing an alleged killer to gain protection in Canada against punishment for his possible involvement in one of the biggest mass murders in modern history.

Our immigration rules afforded freedom to Leon Mugesera, who is accused in his homeland of Rwanda as being one of the trigger men the 1994 genocide that saw a 100-day massacre claim about one million Tutsis and Hutus.

Mugesera fought his deportation through the seemingly endless court proceedings that are entitled to him under our laws. His luck finally ran out on Monday, when the courts ordered him on a plane to Rwanda at Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport.

The sticking point during the laborious proceedings was that Mugesera could face torture if returned.

This country has been reluctant to deport suspected criminals, on "ethical grounds," no matter how serious their crimes. Torture and the death penalty are among the reasons.

But, essentially, it means we apply our standards of justice to other countries through our immigration process.

Serial killer Charles Ng, who evaded California authorities for the sex-torture murders of between 11 and 25 people by sneaking into Canada, enjoyed the same luxury.

Ng and Leonard Lake carried out these horrific executions on Lake's California ranch in 1983 and videotaped the gruesome details. Lake committed suicide after his arrest in 1985, while Ng fled to Calgary and was captured that same year. After a lengthy extradition battle, during which Canadian authorities refused to turn him over to the U.S. because he faced a death sentence if convicted, he was finally handed over in 1998. He now sits on death row in San Quentin State Prison.

As a nation, we must take care not to gain a reputation for pandering to and protecting murderers from the justice of their own countries. It's an extremely costly process to taxpayers and, ultimately, can mean we house other nations' criminals in our prisons.

It is time we re-examined the avenues of appeal open to such criminals and alleged criminals.

In 1992, Mugesera, then a fiery political Rwandan operative, delivered a blistering speech calling the Tutsis "cockroaches" and urging their extermination. Shorty after the speech, he was charged with inciting hatred and fled to Canada for protection.

While a handful of Mugesera's Canadian supporters wept at the airport on Monday, Rwandan authorities applauded Canada's decision, saying it was "the right thing."

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition January 28, 2012 A17

[WestViking]

We have a humanitarian obligation to assist as many refugees as we can accommodate. We have no obligations to the perpetrators of crimes that create refugees. If we have an alleged perpetrator in Canada, we owe it to millions caught up in refugee camps worldwide to deport that person to his or her country of origin forthwith. To grant an alleged perpetrator the same protection as the refugees he persecuted is repulsive.

[styky]

Canada's "Most Wanted" list still active and attracting controversy


By Robert Hiltz, For Postmedia News July 19, 2012

OTTAWA — One year after its creation, the federal government's "Most Wanted" list still sparks controversy.

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews calls it a resounding success: it has seen the capture, thanks to public reporting, of 26 fugitive immigrants, and the expulsion from Canada of 19 of those people.

But the list, which appears on a government website and uses the public's eyes and ears to capture men and women wanted out of Canada for potential war crimes, criminal convictions or links to terrorism and espionage, masks problems, say law and civil rights experts.

It has also attracted international attention - not necessarily positive.

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