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Canadian in Guantánamo Bay
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The recent release of the video showing Omar Khadr talking to a Canadian Intelligence agent left me thinking. The video, filmed in 2003, showed Khadr at the age of 16 being interrogated but not helped. He is a Canadian citizen and a minor at that. In the video, Khadr was constantly asking to be helped but no one was listening to him.

I recently turned 17 and therefore am pretty close to the boy's age. While he is in prison being tortured, I am back in Canada thinking about non-trivial things such as what I'm going to wear for that day, or what the latest gossip is on Facebook. When I saw the picture of Khadr, I instantly recognized the face. It was so similar to all the boys at my school. The ones I see everyday, talk to, and make jokes with. What if they were one day gone and sitting in a prison miles away? While I can only wonder, the family and friends of Khadr are experiencing it.

I can't even imagine living away from the people I know. But then Khadr has been doing just that for the past 6 years. I just can't seem to wrap my mind around it. How could the Canadian government allow this? I'm not sure if he has been rightly convicted but Khadr should still be allowed to be detained in his home country.

Another thing that I'm curious about is Khadr's mention of the wounds he still has on his torso. I recently watched the movie 'Sicko' by Michael Moore. In it, he describes the poor health care the people of the US receive. But he also reveals that the people who have been detained in Guantánamo Bay have much better health care. So if the adults responsible for the deaths of many lives can get better health care than the average American people, why can't our underage Canadian boy get the same attention?


The article can be seen here.

July 15, 2008 | 10:18 AM Comments  0 comments

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