The case of the alleged former Islamic State fighter has the hallmarks of war crimes, and the government should buck its long-time trend and fulfill its legal obligations
Mark Kersten is an assistant professor at the University of the Fraser Valley and a senior consultant at the Wayamo Foundation.as “disgusted as any Canadian” that Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi found his way into Canada . A House of Commons committee willhow an alleged former Islamic State fighter became a citizen only to be caught planning a terrorist attack with his son Mostafa Eldidi on July 31.
The evidence that Ahmed Eldidi may have committed atrocities is gruesome. A person matching his description was captured on a video produced by the Islamic State using a sword to cut off a prisoner’s hands as he is strapped into a wooden contraption.en masse. What the video does suggest is that the prisoner was subjected to torture. If he died as a result of his injuries, then the perpetrator would also have committed an extrajudicial killing. These are war crimes.
Is one act of mutilation or killing enough for a war-crimes charge? Yes. There have numerous trials in European courts where Islamic State figures have been prosecuted for a single war crime, such as posing with the heads of decapitated victims or the shooting of a single prisoner. If he is Syrian, Mr. Eldidi cannot be deported, as he would likely be tortured and perhaps killed. That he cannot be sent back thwarts Canada’sof dealing with war criminals residing in Canada: deporting them to their country of origin and wiping its hands clean of any obligation to hold them to account.
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