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 Posted: 02/ 10/ 01 7:47 am Post subject: Canada to investigate embassy 'sex slaves' |
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Canada to investigate embassy 'sex slaves'
Anne McIlroy in Ottawa
Saturday February 10, 2001
The Guardian
Canada's foreign minister, John Manley, is to investigate allegations that diplomats have smuggled children into Canada to work in their embassies as sex slaves and domestic helpers.
The allegations were raised in the House of Commons on Thursday by the opposition MP Monte Solberg, who said they were based on a newspaper column that quoted an unnamed government source describing how Canadian officials had turned a blind eye to the problem.
The source did not provide details, or say which embassies were involved.
"Officials are accused of covering up several cases of foreign diplomats smuggling children into Canada, abusing them as underpaid embassy domestics, and sexually assaulting them," Mr Solberg told the Commons.
Mr Manley has been under considerable pressure to crack down on the foreign diplomats posted to Canada's capital after an apparently drunk Russian envoy, Andrei Knyazev, drove his car on to a sidewalk, killing one woman and seriously injuring another.
The Russian diplomat refused to face criminal charges, claiming diplomatic immunity, and has since left the country.
Mr Knyazev, it turns out, had been stopped by police for drunk driving in 1999, but was never prosecuted. In fact, the Canadian government sent him a letter of apology because police had handcuffed him.
Mr Manley has already launched an investigation into the incident, and said he will broaden it to include inquiries into child sex slaves.
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