Toronto Star on Eve of Cheney Canada Visit: Arrest Him for War Crimes *GRAPHIC PIX*

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Toronto Star on Eve of Cheney Canada Visit: Arrest Him for War Crimes
General News 10/30/2013 at 19:50:44
By Ralph Lopez

An editorial in Canada's largest newspaper has urged that Canada not provide "safe haven for torturers," on the eve of a visit by former US Vice President Dick Cheney to Toronto.

Cheney is scheduled to address the 2013 Toronto Global Forum on Thursday, October 31st. The newspaper joins an international chorus of attorneys, human rights activists, and street protesters calling for the arrest of Cheney for war crimes committed during his tenure as vice president. The Toronto Star op-ed asserts that Cheney and President George W. Bush oversaw torture programs in which men were:

"beaten, hung from walls or ceilings, deprived of sleep, food and water and subjected to extreme temperatures, among other acts of abuse they endured while in U.S. custody."

Unlike the United States, Canada is a signatory to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, which obliges the Canadian government to investigate and prosecute known instances of torture under the Geneva Conventions.

Bush-era instances of torture remain at the forefront for legal activists calling for prosecution and justice, who say that the practice of "waterboarding" is but the tip of the iceberg in a veritable House of Horrors maintained under the Bush administrations, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, and in secret "black box" locations run by the CIA around the world. A British national, Binyam Mohammed, filed a case in the UK, which was ultimately squashed at the urging of the Obama administration, in which he alleges that US torturers repeatedly sliced his genitals with a razor, even though they knew he had no information to give.