The lack of political will to prosecute alleged participants in genocide was and remains an affront to all Holocaust survivors.
The recent honouring in Parliament of a Ukrainian who served with the Nazis has shone a harsh but honest spotlight on Canada’s record of failure bringing alleged war criminals to justice and respecting the values of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms as they relate to grave historical injustices and human rights violations of genocide and crimes against humanity.
To many Canadians, Canada’s disturbing record regarding the systematic failure for over 70 years to prosecute individuals who served with the Nazis in extermination campaigns and to welcome many to Canada while rejecting immigration applications of Jews who survived the Holocaust will come as a shocking surprise, and one greatly at odds with Canada’s collective self-conception as a country that deeply values and respects human rights.
The lack of political will to prosecute alleged participants in genocide was and remains an affront both to Canadian survivors of the Holocaust and to all Holocaust survivors, wherever they lived and live globally.
Today, Canada continues to fail to bring them to justice in violation of its legal commitments to the UN 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. (more...)
Canada's 'failure of inaction and indifference' on Nazis
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