A new report from a respected human-rights organization says Canada is not doing enough to bring suspected war criminals to justice.
According to Amnesty International, Canada's federal "Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Program" is considered "underfunded and underused."
As with many developed nations, Canada has laws which grant universal jurisdiction for those who have participated in war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity—meaning those in Canada can be tried for their acts, even if they were committed on foreign soil, reports The Canadian Press.
In Canada though, only two people have ever been prosecuted for crimes abroad, the group points out. Both cases were linked to the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Amnesty also highlighted the case of Bill Horace, a Liberian warlord who lived freely in Canada since his arrival in 2002 on a refugee claim. Horace had admitted openly that he was a member of militia leader Charles Taylor's war group.
Taylor is currently serving a 50-year sentence for war crimes.
Horace was shot to death in London, Ontario in June 2020.
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