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Canada: Responsible for International Crimes

elliot saunders | 19.03.2003 22:42

In 1999, the 26 year Genocide of East Timor came to an end. The slaughter of the East Timorians is considered, by human rights historians such as Noam Chomsky, as the most horrific Genocide of the 20th Century.

Canada: Responsible for International Crimes


In 1999, the 26 year Genocide of East Timor came to an end. The slaughter of the East Timorians is considered, by human rights historians such as Noam Chomsky, as the most horrific Genocide of the 20th Century. Hitler’s Nazi army killed more people (10 million) but 1/3 of the total 700,000 Timorians were murdered. Never has a total population been so annihilated with the except for the Native North American population fallen to the bloody hands of European/North America’s, 500 year old conquest of the western hemisphere.

Timor was invaded by Indonesia. Indonesia’s army was heavily sponsored by Canada and its corporate entities (GM Canada, Bombardier, Bell Enterprises). President Suharto, Indonesia’s leader at the time met with Trudeau 6 months before the invasion. Canada has been condemned internationally for its involvement in the Timor slaughters – responsible for Genocide.

The new found war on terrorism is a logical impossibility. The US is the world’s leading, Post WWII (to present), terrorist. Ask the Columbian’s citizens who were the victims of US financed, chemical warfare in 1999 (Cauca, Columbia). Ask the million Japanese who were fire bombed and nuked in the late 1940’s. Ask the 10,000’s of Kurds in Iraq who were gassed by Saddam – paid for by the US. If The US was set to “war against terrorism” it would have to dismantle its government and its corporate ruler - industrial military complex. If Canada continues to involve itself in international terrorism – it will continue to be condemned internationally, as it has been in the past.

Cretien has taken a final stance to not involve our military in the invasion of Iraq. But this, by no means, indicates that we are not involved directly. Canada became directly involved when Canadian troops were sent to kill Taliban soldiers in Afghanistan. The invasion of Afghanistan is illegal by international law. If we don’t send troops to Iraq, we’ll stand to make a fortune, indirectly, through US sponsored, arms contracts. During Vietnam, a war of Canadian “non-engagement”, Canada made a fortune from making biotech warfare chemicals, bombs and arms for the US terrorism army.

elliot saunders
- e-mail: maniitok@yahoo.ca