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http://ameblo.jp/warm-heart/entry-10115226435.html から転載。 2008-07-11 19:27:16 カナダの連邦裁判所は7月4日、イラク従軍を忌避してカナダに逃れた米兵による難民申請を棄却したカナダの政府機関、「移民難民委員会」に対して、決定の再検討を指示した。難民申請を拒否されカナダの連邦裁判所に訴えていたのは米陸軍一等兵、ジョシュア・キー氏。2005年3月に従軍を拒否して妻や子とともにカナダに入国していたもの。 キー氏は2003年8ヶ月間工兵としてイラクで軍務をについていた。任地では軍命で一般家庭に侵入することが許されていたと彼は言う。1949年のジュネーブ条約によって一般人に対する軍事行動が禁じられているので、これは明らかに条約違反である。彼は2週間の休暇中に逃亡した。 連邦裁判所判事のリチャード・バーンズ氏による決定は「武器捜索と称してイラク民間人家庭を夜間急襲をするのは重大な条約違反である」と指摘。一般家庭への強制捜索の際に、キー一等兵は不当な虐待や不法監禁を目撃した。不当な任務を逃れるためにカナダへ出国したことは難民として認定するに足る、というのが連邦裁決定の結論だ。 トロントで戦争拒否米兵の支援活動を行っているリー・ザスロフスキー氏は「これこそ真の突破口である」「我々をわくわくさせるのは、これが他のイラク従軍拒否米兵にもおそらく適用されるだろうと言うことだ」と語った。 キー氏の弁護人ジェフリー・ハウス氏は、「彼と彼の家族は（カナダに）滞在できるようにとひたすら祈り続けている」と語り、「この決定はキー氏と同じくイラクでの従軍を拒否してカナダにいる米兵たちに重大な影響を及ぼすだろう」と付け加えた。 ---------------------------------- 詳細についてはこちらで ⇒ http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=9f47f6c3-6b0b-4f34-86f1-a4fe233541e0 U.S. deserter wins appeal in battle for refugee status（canada.com） OTTAWA - A Canadian court has sided for the first time with a military deserter who fled to Canada seeking refugee status, ruling Friday that the U.S. soldier witnessed enough human rights abuses during a stint in Iraq that he could qualify for asylum. The decision also marked the first time that the Federal Court, which has heard a handful of cases involving deserters, concluded that military action against civilians in Iraq violates the 1949 Geneva Convention, an international prohibition against humiliating and degrading treatment. Federal Court Justice Richard Barnes ordered the Immigration and Refugee Board to reconsider the failed refugee claim of Joshua Key, a soldier who entered Canada with his wife, Brandi, and their small children in March 2005. Key, an army private, deserted during a two-week break from serving as a combat engineer in Iraq, where he spent eight months in 2003 and says he was involved in military-condoned home invasions against civilians. "This is a real breakthrough," said Lee Zaslofsky of the Toronto-based War Resisters Support Campaign. "What excites us is this may also apply to other war resisters who took part in Iraq." Barnes ruled that the board too narrowly interpreted refugee eligibility by concluding only soldiers who seek protection from committing war crimes need apply. "Officially condoned military misconduct falling well short of a war crime may support a claim to refugee protection," said the ruling. Barnes said it "cannot be seriously challenged" that some of the conduct in which Keys participated violated the Geneva Convention. "This included the responsibility for conducting night-time raids of private Iraqi homes in search of weapons," said the decision. "Pte. Key's role in this was to blow open the doors with explosives and then to assist in both securing the premises and detaining the adult male occupants. Mr. Key alleged that during these searches he witnessed several instances of unjustified abuse, unwarranted detention, humiliation and looting by fellow soldiers, much of which he said was ignored by his superior officers." The Geneva Convention prohibits "outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment" and "unlawful confinement." Key, 30, is the co-author of The Deserter's Tale, a book about serving in Iraq and his flight from the U.S. military. He was born in Oklahoma in 1978, enlisting in the military in 2002. He now lives in Spiritwood in northern Saskatchewan and says that he suffers from post-traumatic stress, including insomnia, nightmares and hallucinations that "flash me right back to Iraq." His lawyer, Jeffry House, said it was not lost on Key that the ruling was released on July 4, the U.S. national holiday. "He's crossing his fingers that he and his family will be able to stay," House said. The decision could affect as many as 100 American deserters who crossed the border into Canada after serving in Iraq, House added. One of those is Corey Glass, a 25-year-old American who served in Iraq and has been ordered to leave Canada by July 10. The war resisters campaign called on the federal government on Friday to halt deportation proceedings. Key's case is different from U.S. soldiers Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey, war resisters who failed in their refugee claims, in which they were seeking to stay in Canada as conscientious objectors to the war in Iraq. Hinzman and Hughey, who never served in Iraq, were unable to convince the Federal Court to allow them asylum to avoid participating in a war they contend is illegal. U.S. soldiers who fled to Canada to escape the Iraq war also won a symbolic victory last month, when a majority of MPs in the House of Commons voted the deserters should be able to stay in the country permanently. The motion, put forward by the NDP, is non-binding on the minority Conservative government.
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＜戦争忌避米兵の難民申請＞連邦裁が棄却された難民申請の再検討を指示
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Janice Tibbetts , Canwest News Service
Published: Friday, July 04, 2008
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