UN Committee Against Torture Agenda 48, Canada Re. Non Lethal Weapons, Medical Torture, Information on victims of torture, Charges Against Torturers...

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Please help me forward this letter below to UN Committee Against Torture .From one testing software, I can’t guarantee I can send this letter to UN Committee Against Torture with my computer and email box.
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UN Committee Against Torture                     Page:1/1
c/o Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Office at Geneva
CH-1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland

BY EMAIL: InfoDesk@ohchr.org
BY FAX: 41 22 917 9022

CC: Amnesty International
CC: Human Rights Watch

Re: Committee Against Torture, 48TH  Session, Canada                                             
 
Dear  Committee Against Torture:

My updated letter for you has been kept in this link below.
Thank you.

http://www.scribd.com/RYclerk

Best regards,

Robin Yan

15/05/2012
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The Committee against Torture has opened its 48th Session. Over the next four weeks the Committee will examine State Party reports from Albania, Greece, Armenia, Czech Republic, Rwanda, Syria, Canada and Cuba, as well as consider individual communications and several other related tasks.

For the first time, all counties under review will be webcast, and will be available at this link.

Full details of the Committee session are available on the CAT website.

http://www.treatybodywebcast.org/

http://www.irct.org/media-and-resources/irct-news-1.aspx?PID=13717&M=NewsV2&Action=1&NewsId=3590

Please provide updated information and statistical data, disaggregated by crime, geographical location, ethnicity, age and gender, on complaints relating to torture, attempted torture and complicity or participation in torture and acts amounting to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, which have been filed during the reporting period, as well as related investigations, prosecutions, convictions and penal and disciplinary sentences.

Please provide updated information on: The training of forensic doctors and medical personnel, especially on the use of the Istanbul Protocol

http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/docs/CAT.C.CAN.Q.6.pdf

Dear Canadian victims and all:

This link below is our updated " To UN Committee Against Torture Agenda, 48, Canada." If you support UN CAT Agenda ,please add your contact information. Thanks.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/92741953/Updated-To-UN-Committee-Against-Torture-Agenda-48-Canada

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I forward these two videos below for your reference. They contain some important statements by NATO, ICRC, and UNIDIR regarding the use of Non Lethal Weapons.            

Video 1:

First response to the Government of Canada after our tabled petition for a public inquiry  was denied. The House of Commons of Canada stated: "The Government  has no information on any such activities."          

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3QpbrnCiAQ&feature=channel&list=UL

Video 2:

Torture and Crimes Against Humanity with Non Lethal Weapons, Heart Attack Gun, Noise Weapons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQo5sFwkpfo&feature=channel&list=UL

Through this letter to you, I hope you can:

1)      Update your agenda ,dated May 21, 2012 if possible

2)      Urge Mr. Attorney General of Canada and The House of Commons of Canada to exercise their power and jurisdiction to appoint a public inquiry in terms of “prompt”, “impartial”, and “thorough”

3)      Retain our rights to proceed with our claims according to international norms

Thank you for considering my/our request. English is my second language. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact me/us by at least possible tools.

Best regards,

Robin yan 

03/05/2012

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I attach two letters from Mr. Attorney General of Canada and Mr. Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services for you.        

Statement by Mr. Attorney General of Canada, “ …you may wish to write to the Honourable Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services for Ontario who is responsible for policing services Toronto.” 

http://picasaweb.google.com/114731102020557937402/EvidenceForMrAttorneyGeneralOfCanada?gsessionid=PFplkFFEEsFIA8Uaz0dBuQ#5549818302161439682         

Statement by Mr. Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services, “As Minister, I must not become directly involved in operational policing matters…”.

http://picasaweb.google.com/114731102020557937402/EvidenceForMrAttorneyGeneralOfCanada?gsessionid=PFplkFFEEsFIA8Uaz0dBuQ#5706143549532177442

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Dear UN Committee Against Torture:                                                           Page:1/3

CC: Amnesty International

CC: Human Rights Watch                                                                 

Key words: Torture, Non Lethal Weapons (Less-than-Lethal Weapons, Conducted Energy Weapons), A Pubic Inquiry, UN Committee Against Torture, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Canada

I, as a Canadian victim of torture with Non Lethal Weapons note that both UN Committee Against Torture and Amnesty International are working on this agenda as follows:

“List of issues to be considered in connection with the consideration of the sixth periodic report of Canada (CAT/C/CAN/6)” by UN Committee Against Torture

http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/cats48.htm

http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/docs/CAT.C.CAN.Q.6.pdf

 “Briefing to UN Committee Against Torture, Canada”  by Amnesty International

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR20/004/2012/en

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AMR20/004/2012/en/b46d9371-1b2c-414b-90e9-b97c3953cb48/amr200042012en.pdf

I also note that Human Rights Watch delivered one open letter to Federal Party Leaders on Human Rights Priorities, dated May 9, 2011. It stated: “We would welcome the opportunity to provide you and members of Parliament with additional information on our work, and to engage in discussion about how we might work together in the future to protect and promote fundamental human rights, both within Canada and abroad.”

 According to the promises by the Government of Canada and international norms, by every possible means, I and other Canadian victims have asked some parliament members in charge and The House of Commons of Canada to help stop these atrocious acts of torture through a public inquiry. However, not only did they refuse my request and our tabled petition regardless of facts (the evidence we provided and previous torture cases), but their acts of torture have become more serious. The reason why they commit such crimes without considering any consequences and without restraint is that they believe that no one in the world can do something about them.

Dear UN Committee Against Torture:                                                           

CC: Amnesty International

CC: Human Rights Watch                                                                 

Key words: Torture, Non Lethal Weapons (Less-than-Lethal Weapons, Conducted Energy Weapons), A Pubic Inquiry, UN Committee Against Torture, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Canada

http://www.scribd.com/doc/92324036/To-UN-Committee-Against-Torture-Agenda-48-Canada

OMCT is now standing up not only for us, but for all victims in the world. Thank you again.

OMCT Genève shared a link.
The programme of work of the 48th session of the CAT is online: http://bit.ly/InIX3h! OMCT will webcast the public sessions on Cuba and Canada.

UN Committee Against Torture has asked Canada to provide data of allegations of torture and related information.

War Crimes, Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity

http://www.usip.org/files/MC1/MC1-Part2Section1.pdf

War Crimes, Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity

http://www.usip.org/files/MC1/MC1-Part2Section1.pdf

Committee Against Torture Agenda: the use of Non Lethal Weapons in Canada and charges against torturers will be heard at UN
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/cats48.htm

We must understand what kinds of crimes they commit when using Non Lethal Weapons ( Mind Control Weapons) to torture civilians according to the international laws and tools.

1.The Law of War by NATO

Science & Technology Committee of NATO regarding the use of non lethal weapons against civilians

Discussions on the use of "non-lethal" weapons in situations involving riot-control, hostage-rescue, peacekeeping and peace-enforcement operations, as well as in traditional warfare situations, have so far focused mainly on the technology and engagement doctrine of these new weapons - see the Assembly's report "Non-Lethal Weapons" by Lord Lyell, General Rapporteur [AP 238 STC (97) 8]. The ICRC experts have studied both the effects of "non-lethal" weapons on health and how they would be used in the light of international humanitarian laws. According to their conclusions, presented by Dr. Robin Coupland, all references to "lethal" or "non-lethal" oversimplify the effects of weapons and are therefore misleading. The so-called "non-lethal" weapons (such as infrasound, electromagnetic waves or sticky foams) can indeed have severe effects on health depending on the circumstances in which they are deployed or on their possible combination with existing conventional weapons. According to ICRC, the military use of "non-lethal" weapons against civilians could undermine the existing norms of international law pertaining to armed conflict as well as the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention and the 1925 Geneva Protocol. The organization recommended that current efforts to integrate "non-lethal" weapons into operations of armed forces should address more properly the legal, health and tactical implications of doing so.

2. The International Humanitarian Law by ICRC

In the on-going debate about emerging technologies which are to be used as so-called "non-lethal weapons" it has proven not only useful but necessary to address questions related to the rules pertinent to international humanitarian law, also called the law of war. A number of questions in this field have been discussed over the last years but the correct understanding and implementation of these rules with regard to "non-lethal weapons" has shown many times to be more complex than expected. The law of war contains obligations and in this sense it goes much further than just addressing ethical, moral or even public opinion issues.

Our paper would address the legal obligations which are contained in the law of war and which are pertinent to "non-lethal weapons", in particular when they are developed for use in times of armed conflicts, including military operations other than war or military operations in urban terrain. The basic principles of the law of war and existing treaties which restrict or prohibits some "non-lethal weapons" will also be mentioned. In the law of war there is also an obligation to carry out legal reviews in a multidisciplinary approach which is very much relevant to emerging technologies since often their wounding effect is not known.

Finally it is also the intent to present findings about the wounding mechanisms and the effects on humans of currently used weapons in most of the conflicts. This would help putting the term "non-lethal" in a more realistic perspective, in particular compared to other weapons, so-called conventional "lethal" weapons.

3. Torture by Amnesty International and UN

Amnesty International continues to be concerned by the use of less-than-lethal weapons, particularly Conducted Energy Devices (CEDs) such as TASERS. Some of these weapons pose a potential risk of resulting in torture or ill-treatment when used. UN states: Torture is a crime under international law. According to all relevant instruments, it is absolutely prohibited and cannot be justified under any circumstances

4. Crimes Against Humanity by ICC

“Torture is a crime against humanity”From: American Nongovernmental Organization Coalition for the International Criminal Court

In certain cases, systematic torture of a particular group will allow the criminal defense attorney to use additional international mechanisms, such as the International Criminal Court (ICC). Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December of 1948, includes "acting with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group [by] causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group" as part of its definition of genocide. ^[4]

The Rome Statute of the ICC incorporates this definition of genocide as well as a definition of crimes against humanity, which includes torture. As soon as a State becomes a party to the Statute, it accepts the ICC's jurisdiction with respect to those crimes, and a State can recommend individual nationals suspected of those crimes to the Court. The ICC will then have complete jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute unless the person recommended has already been tried or is in the process of going to trial in the State already.

We are concerned here with reinforcing in the strongest possible terms:

i) The need for such abuses to human rights and the threats to democracy to be called to consciousness, and without further delay.

ii) To analyse the reasons why people might defend themselves from becoming conscious of the existence of such threats.

iii) To address the urgent need for intelligence, imagination, and information - not to mention compassion - in dealing with the victims of persecution from this technology, and

iv) To alert a sleeping society, to the imminent threats to their freedom from the threat from fascist and covert operations who have in all probability gained control of potentially lethal weaponry of the type we are describing.

It is necessary to emphasise that at present there is not even the means for victims to gain medical attention for the effects of radiation from this targeting. Denied the respect of credulity of being used as human guinea pigs, driven to suicide by the breakdown of their lives, they are treated as insane – at best regarded as ‘sad cases’. Since the presence of a permanent ‘other’ in one’s mind and body is by definition an act of the most intolerable cruelty, people who are forced to bear it but who refuse to be broken by it, have no other option than to turn themselves into activists, their lives consumed by the battle against such atrocities, their energies directed to alerting and informing the public of things they don’t want to hear or understand about evil forces at work in their society.
It is necessary, at this point, to briefly outline a few – one might say the precious few – attempts by public servants to verify the existence and dangers inherent in this field:

• In January 1998, an annual public meeting of the French      National Bioethics Committee was held in Paris. Its chairman, Jean-Pierre      Changeux, a neuroscientist at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, told the      meeting that “advances in cerebral imaging make the scope for invasion of      privacy immense. Although the equipment needed is still highly      specialized, it will become commonplace and capable of being used at a      distance. That will open the way for abuses such as invasion of personal      liberty, control of behaviour and brainwashing. These are far from being      science-fiction concerns…and constitute “a serious risk to society.”      (“Nature.” Vol 391, 1998.
• In January 1999, the European Parliament passed a      resolution where it calls “ for an international convention introducing a      global ban on all development and deployment of weapons which might enable      any form of manipulation of human beings. It is our conviction that this      ban can not be implemented without the global pressure of the informed      general public on the governments. Our major objective is to get across to      the general public the real threat which these weapons represent for      human rights and democracy and to apply pressure on the governments and      parliaments around the world to enact legislature which would prohibit the      use of these devices to both government and private organisations as well      as individuals.” (Plenary sessions/Europarliament, 1999)
• In October 2001, Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich      introduced a bill to the House of Representatives which, it was hoped      would be extremely important in the fight to expose and stop      psycho-electronic mind control experimentation on involuntary,      non-consensual citizens. The Bill was referred to the Committee on      Science, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services and      International Relations. In the original bill a ban was sought on ‘exotic      weapons’ including electronic, psychotronic or information weapons,      chemtrails, particle beams, plasmas, electromagnetic radiation, extremely      low frequency (ELF) or ultra low frequency (ULF) energy radiation, or mind      control technologies. Despite the inclusion of a prohibition of the basing      of weapons in space, and the use of weapons to destroy objects or damage      objects in space, there is no mention in the revised bill of any of the      aforementioned mind-invasive weaponry, nor of the use of satellite or      radar or other energy based technology for deploying or developing      technology designed for deployment against the minds of human beings.      (Space Preservation Act, 2002)

http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/research/cpss/Journal_Psycho-Social_Studies/v2-2/SmithC.shtml