Canada’s Government Continues to Persecute "Child Soldier" Omar Khadr

Canada’s government continues to persecute “child soldier” Omar Khadr

By Ed Patrick; 8 September 2012 – WSWS
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/sep2012/khad-s08.shtml

Canada’s Conservative government is continuing the decade-long vendetta Canadian and U.S. authorities have mounted against Omar Khadr, the “child soldier” who has been detained at Guantanamo Bay for the past decade.

Today just 25 years old, the Canadian-born Khadr has long been the only citizen of a Western country still detained at Guantanamo Bay. Now Canada’s Conservative government is delaying implementing a plea-bargain agreement under which Ottawa agreed that Khadr would be allowed to return to Canada after serving the first year of

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