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The following is excerpted from an article on Omar Khadr, Oh Canada in Vue Weekly:
The anticipated return of Omar Khadr to Canada brings with it the heated debate over his innocence and treatment by the Canadian government. The case of the Canadian citizen who has been called a child soldier by the UN and a terrorist by the US military brought forward some uncomfortable questions about the Canadian government's treatment of it's own citizens—questions that remain unanswered. Omar Khadr, Oh Canada is a new anthology by University of Alberta Professor Janice Williamson that attempts to highlight the questions and impacts of the Khadr case
"The portrait we have of ourselves as a nation that values democracy, that values human rights—that sense of ourselves—we really have to look in the mirror to see how we aren't living up to that promise," Williamson advises. She argues that the imprisonment of Khadr is unlawful based on his child soldier status and the torture he received at Bagram and Guantanamo.
The book was born from a gathering Williamson attended a few years ago, which was hosted by King's College, the Al Rashid Mosque and Amnesty International in attempt to raise awareness about Khadr. "The combination of these three groups: human rights activists, Muslims and a Christian based university was very moving … and I was struck by it and realized it was an issue I had ignored for too long."But not only that," Williamson continues, "the Government was ignoring him, and was ignoring the fact that the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Canada and the Federal Appeal Court of Canada had all indicated that Omar Khadr should be transferred to Canada and was unjustly imprisoned in Guantanamo."
*Update: Omar Khadr's lawyers to appear in Ottawa to demand his release. Read about it in the Toronto Star
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