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Soldiers risk war-crimes charges, report warns
Deal on detainees does 'great disservice' to Canadian troops - Featuring Michael Byers
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Description: Canadian soldiers could find themselves charged with war crimes in the International Criminal Court because of an agreement the government approved on the handling of detainees captured in Afghanistan, warns a report to be released today.
Date: 09 April 2006
Author: David Pugliese
Source: The Ottawa Citizen
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Canadian soldiers could find themselves charged with war crimes in the International Criminal Court because of an agreement the government approved on the handling of detainees captured in Afghanistan, warns a report to be released today.
The legal opinion on the arrangement regarding prisoners captured by Canadian troops and then turned over to the Afghan government raises a number of red flags about the lack of safeguards to protect soldiers against later prosecution.
"Whoever negotiated this agreement did our soldiers a great disservice," said Michael Byers, an international law professor at the University of British Columbia, who wrote the opinion...
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