Saturday, January 19, 2008
Canada folds under pressure
After letting the cat out of the bag, that it was training its diplomats to the US and Israel how to recognize when a Canadian citizen has been tortured while in custody, Canada has succumbed to international pressure from the United Caucus of Torture Loving States and removed those two erstwhile friends from the list.
Canada's foreign ministry, responding to pressure from close allies, said on Saturday it would remove the United States and Israel from a watch list of countries where prisoners risk being tortured.Mind you, the US and Israel have not stopped the use of torture, they just don't want people talking about it.
Both nations expressed unhappiness after it emerged they had been listed in a document that formed part of a training course manual on torture awareness given to Canadian diplomats.
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