So, Canadian government is allowed to break its own law, international law
and the UN Charter and bomb a foreign country, yet a Canadian citizen
[especially SERB]is going to be jailed if he defends these laws!
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http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2008/06/17/5905031.html
Tue, June 17, 2008
Ex-city man jailed for taking UN hostages appeals
Nicholas Ribic claims it was self-defence
By
The Canadian Press
TORONTO - Crown lawyers say a Canadian man fighting for Serbia cannot claim
self-defence to justify kidnapping a UN observer during the war in Bosnia in
1995.
Nicholas Ribic, originally from Edmonton, is in the Ontario Court of Appeal
to contest his conviction in the hostage-taking of Canadian Forces Capt.
Patrick Rechner 13 years ago.
Ribic was convicted in an Ottawa courtroom of hostage-taking and threatening
death - the first time anyone had been convicted under the Criminal Code for
such a crime abroad.
Ribic argues the kidnapping was justified under the Criminal Code, which
allows the use of reasonable force to prevent an assault - in this case, a
NATO attack.
The Crown, however, says Ribic had no claim to the munitions depot where
Rechner was held because he had to break in to access it.
They also argue Ribic's self-defence argument doesn't hold water because he
had less violent means of defence at his disposal.
Sept. 2005. Ten years after he helped take UN military observers hostage
during the former Yugoslavia's civil war, a Canadian was sentenced yesterday
to three years in prison.
Serbian News Network - SNN
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