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Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 11:36:04 -0500
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From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UN wants to know about Dudley George inquiry
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UN committee wants to know
about Dudley George inquiry
UNITED NATIONS (CP) - The 1995 killing of Ontario native
protester Dudley George came up Friday when a United
Nations
committee asked Canada how it�s living up to the terms
of an
international covenant on political and civil rights.
The UN Human Rights Committee asked the Canadian
government
whether an inquiry has been held "into the
circumstances, including
the role and responsibility of public officials, of an
incident in which a
police officer shot dead Mr. Dudley George ..."
While the UN committee is supposed to query all
signatory countries
on how well they are observing the covenant, the
question about
George gave a boost to Canadian petitioners seeking a
public inquiry
into his death.
During a clash at Ipperwash Provincial Park Sept. 6,
1995, an
Ontario provincial police officer shot and killed
George during a
protest.
It was believed to be the first killing of an
indigenous person this
century in Canada in a land-claims dispute. George was
one of 30 or
so native men, women and children who protested the
destruction of
burial grounds in the park on Lake Huron.
The case was brought before the UN committee after 3�
years of
fruitless legal battles by the Coalition for a Public
Inquiry into the
Death of Dudley George, a non-governmental organization
headed
by Ann Pohl of Toronto.
Pohl said in an interview Friday the UN committee was
"very
enthusiastic" in bringing the case to the attention of
the Canadian
government.
The query about George was one of more than two dozen
written
questions the 18-member committee had for the Canadian
government delegation, headed by Rob Watts, assistant
deputy
minister on Indian affairs.
Some of the questions were read out one after another
without
waiting for an immediate reply from the delegation
while a few were
answered promptly at the closed session, witnesses said.
"When they (the Canadian delegation) go home, they will
receive
concluding observations from the committee in a couple
of weeks,"
said Pohl, who attended as a petitioner.
"It had happened before that Canada had been taken to
task by the
UN on aboriginal issues and had decided to act on it. I
believe they
will in this issue."
Pohl said her group provided information to the UN
committee and
the reception has been "extremely heartening."
The coalition alleged in a brief filed to the UN
committee that
Canada violated several provisions in the covenant,
including the
right to life and treatment of protesters.
The committee�s other questions cover a wide range of
topics - from
native rights to gender equality, from the right to
privacy to the
treatment of detainees.
It sought information on the outcome of an
investigation into the
Canadian military�s "use of lethal force" while on a UN
mission in
Somalia in 1993.
And it asked what measures have been taken to prevent
child
prostitution in Canada.
� The Canadian Press, 1999
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1957 G.H. Estabrooks, Creator
of the Manchurian Candidate
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