The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, warns that those involved in the spiral of violence between Israel and Lebanon could face war crimes charges if they are found to have deliberately attacked civilians
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Louise Arbour, by the way, is Canadian; former Supreme Court Justice; former Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda; currently UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Read the text of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
And don't forget other war and the Iraq Body Count.
As of today MIN 39250 MAX 43709
Just think about that for a moment please. Thirty nine thousand two hundred and fifty.
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And more on Canada taking sides: John Gray writes with clarity and honesty (more than can be said about the bumbling Larry Zolf)
Yet another consideration is that Harper, like Bush, springs from and owes his political loyalty to the Christian Right. The Christian Right has a profound loyalty to Israel; if that is not what guides Peter MacKay as foreign minister, it certainly is what inspires Harper as prime minister and former Alliance leader Stockwell Day, now Harper's security minister.
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The more serious problem is what comes next. The fear is that the United States is determined to attack Iran as it attacked Iraq and the first stage of that would be Israel's destruction of Iran's allies in Hezbollah.
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