How Much Money for Manpower and Investigations Have our Police and Security Services Received? How Much More is Needed for a Thorough House Cleaning?
*** IRB: Aden, You're a Liar! Get Out! He's Still Here, Of Course -- He has Privacy Rights! Denis Coderre Says So ***
*** The majority of contemporary war criminals arrive as refugee claimants, the government says.
"Many in this group have been able to bypass the overseas screening process by travelling to Canada with fraudulent or improperly obtained travel documents, often posing as persons from countries whose citizens do not require a visa to visit Canada," according to the 2002 report. ***
The beatings . . . threats of imminent death.. . . real torture, said Ahmed Abdulkadir Aden, recounting his treatment at the hands of rival clans in Somalia, his troubled homeland.
. . . hog-tied, beaten with steel rods and left in the hot sun for hours on end. Then there was the day he was tied up in a sack and dumped into the sea -- to be hauled out just in time to prevent drowning.
During the nights, Mr. Aden, along with nearly two dozen fellow prisoners . . . dug a tunnel to freedom, he said. He then fled to Toronto, where his wife had already been accepted as a refugee.
A Refugee to Canada: Wife Conveniently Here
His ordeal in 1991, as his homeland was consumed by the anarchy that followed the overthrow of the regime of Siad Barre, Somalia's military dictator, is outlined in detail in Mr. Aden's claim for refugee status, made in Toronto in 1994.
Was that at the same time as vicious killer and Somali Warlord Aidid's wife and several children made it to Canada as refugees -- to batten on poor burdened Canadian taxpayers? It figures. If memory serves, they ran quite a large welfare scam -- using various names. Then there were the six Somali taxi drivers who made it to Yellowknife and ran the biggest phone scam ever run in Canada -- at least then. But, I suppose they voted Liberal and now the Liberals don't want to deport other potential Liberal voters. I'm sure they're able to manage a simple vote if they and their ilk can scam us so ably. Ah, but I am a cynic. NJC
The Reality:
The trouble is, what Mr. Aden describes to Canadian authorities with substantively less precision is his own involvement in the Red Berets, a notorious security force that "unleashed a reign of terror" on Barre's opponents, according to an Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) decision.
The Red Berets earned the hatred of the populace from having engaged in a number of crimes against humanity -- including a massacre of civilians at a soccer stadium, the abduction of young girls as "temporary wives" and the indiscriminate killing of peaceful demonstrators.
An IRB panel outlined Mr. Aden's own alleged war crimes and ordered him deported.
He never showed up to be flown home, however, and has since vanished. His name is one of 62 alleged or suspected war criminals wanted by Canadian authorities for their suspected involvement in war crimes or crimes against humanity, obtained by the National Post.
At least nine of them are Somalis suspected of complicity in crimes against humanity. Barre's government is designated by Canada as a regime that engaged in systematic human rights abuses, one of eight so designated, allowing immigration officials the legal grounds to bar the regime's officials from entering Canada.
The Protestations of Innocence: The Lies
[. . . .] "I was employed by the military police as a guard [. . . . ] "I was never involved in any combat or security operations, other than as a guard, first at a Military Police camp and later at the parliament buildings."
[. . . .] It was only under questioning that Mr. Aden admitted he carried an AK-47 assault rifle . . . never used it.. . . never involved in repressive measures against civilians and was not personally involved in any atrocities.
IRB: Aden, You're a Liar! Get Out! He's Still Here, Of Course -- He has Privacy Rights! Denis Coderre Says So
The IRB says the Red Berets were "a dreaded elite unit from among the president's Marehan clansmen.... Faced with the shrinking popularity and armed and organized domestic resistance, Siad Barre unleashed a reign of terror against [rivals], carried out by the Red Berets."
[. . . .] "The claimant's testimony that he was able to resign from the Red Berets in December, 1990, was utterly incredible. At this time, Siad Barre's government was mobilizing all his forces to face the imminent assault from [opponents], and as such, the panel finds it implausible that any member of the army or the Red Berets will even get a holiday, let alone the acceptance of a resignation," the decisions said.
"The claimant was not an ordinary soldier in the Somalian army; he was a member of the Red Berets, a unit known to have perpetrated brutal crimes against humanity in Somalia. He joined voluntarily," it said.
"The claimant had the knowledge of, and the complicits in, the Red Berets and their crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Siad Barre regime."
