http://www.amnesty.ca/iwriteforjustice/take_action.php?actionid=772&type=Internal
EXCERPT:
. . . US authorities prefer to “leave the past where it is.” No one in a leadership role has ever been held accountable, let alone investigated.
On September 21, 2011, Amnesty International submitted a 30-page memorandum accompanied by nearly 5,000 pages of supporting material to Canadian authorities. It outlined a substantial case for former US President George W Bush’s legal responsibility for a series of human rights violations – including torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading-treatment and enforced disappearances — connected to the CIA’s secret detention program between 2002 and 2009 and US military custody in Guantánamo, Afghanistan and Iraq.
While President, George W. Bush authorized the use of a number of “enhanced interrogation techniques” against detainees held in the secret CIA program. He publicly admitted authorizing the use of “waterboarding” against specific individuals – a practice which was later confirmed.
Former US President George W. Bush is scheduled to speak at a public event in Surrey, BC on October 20, 2011.
Canada has been a leader in efforts to strengthen the international justice system. It’s time to demonstrate that when it comes to accountability for human rights violations, no one and no country is above international law. . . .