Dr. Amir Hossein Mohebali, speaking in an interview with the website of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, referred to the discovery of mass graves in Canada and the responsibility of the Canadian government for violating the rights of Canadian indigenous people and said: Usually, regarding the international responsibility of states, the two elements of \u201cbreach of the contract\u201d and \u201cattributability\u201d must be considered in order to express the violation or non-violation of countries. Regarding Canada, the issue of \u201cattributability\u201d has been established; because the government, in order to show international transparency, has acknowledged that it committed cultural genocide and apologized for that.<\/p>\n
Clear responsibility of Canadian government for genocide<\/strong><\/p>\n Explaining that the issue is whether committing those anti-human rights acts against the indigenous, which today speaks of the discovery of 1,200 mass graves, is a violation of the contract by that country or not, he explained: \u201cCommon law\u201d is one of the sources of international law which produces legal basis that cannot be acted otherwise; accordingly, Canadian actions violate existing common law.<\/p>\n Stressing that Canada\u2019s actions reflect a customary violation that existed at that time and still exists, the international law expert said: In addition, the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prohibition and Punishment of Genocide stipulates that no government has the right to commit genocidal crimes.<\/p>\n Mohebali reminded that genocide is any action or attempt to destroy or physically eliminate a part or whole of a racial, ethnic, national, religious or ideological group and has a wide definition, adding: Canada has taken several measures for the genocide of the natives and is doing so now and the main point is that such crimes still continue; for example, they contaminate their drinking water with mercury toxin and provide it to them, or they generally ignore languages \u200b\u200bin indigenous areas and deliberately discriminate against them in relation to government and protection services and occupy their lands.<\/p>\n Canada violates the 1948 Convention<\/strong><\/p>\n He went on to say that such actions could be considered as elements of the crime of genocide in Canada, adding that Canada\u2019s actions could be considered cultural genocide or genocide in general and could be considered a violation of the 1948 Convention.<\/p>\n The international expert of the Judiciary Human Rights Headquarters, referring to the Canadian government\u2019s legal and political measures to absolve itself of responsibility for those crimes, said: Canada is a country that is very artistically and abusively misuses human rights and considers it as a commodity of prestige. In fact, it makes the best use of the issue of \u201chuman rights\u201d to justify itself in the international arena.<\/p>\n Emphasizing the need to pay attention to the distinction between \u201chuman rights violations\u201d and \u201cinternational crime\u201d, Mohebali stated: \u201cWhen human rights violations reach their peak, they are on the verge of international crimes. International crimes are also seen in four categories: \u201cwar crime\u201d, \u201ccrimes against humanity\u201d, \u201cgenocide\u201d and \u201ccrime of land rape\u201d.<\/p>\n Canada\u2019s apology is outrageous<\/strong><\/p>\n He added: Canada has shifted its focus to international crime and turned the threshold of human rights violations into the threshold of international crime; but on the other hand, it uses human rights tools so artistically that it somehow portrays it as a violation of human rights, not as an international crime, and in the international arena it blatantly speaks of \u201capology\u201d.<\/p>\n Mohebali explained: Canadian authorities are announcing that \u2018we have started investigation and will survey ourselves\u2019 and take a responsible gesture. While on the basis of international law, the international responsibility of states and the criminal responsibility of individuals have effects, of which \u201capology\u201d is the first, most obvious, and most imperfect one. There are definitely other side effects to follow; among other things, a \u201cguarantee of non-repetition\u201d must be given. Canada has not done so at all and is currently committing a number of crimes against indigenous people.<\/p>\n Canada\u2019s instrumental view of human rights<\/strong><\/p>\n He said: Even if we do not consider the current actions of the Canadian government to be on the verge of a crime; that country commits gross and systematic violations of indigenous rights against indigenous groups and does not guarantee non-recurrence. In fact, the prime minister of Canada, in a gesture of transparency, has stated that \u2018we are a transparent country and we accept our responsibility\u2019, but he does not see the effects of this responsibility on himself, and this shows the instrumental view of human rights.<\/p>\n Saying that a country whose international responsibility is being realized must first return the situation to the previous status and strive for it, he noted: People who have perished will not return; but Canada could have returned to normalcy through other measures, including appropriate compensation, which is not on the government\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n He considered \u201ccompensation\u201d as the third effect of liability, adding: Compensation does not only mean material compensation but also includes moral compensation. We see that this issue is not fundamentally on the agenda of the Canadian government either.<\/p>\n Regarding the role and responsibility of international institutions in relation to this gross violation of human rights in Canada and their current inactivity, he stated: Human rights mechanisms are divided into two categories: \u201cmechanisms based on the UN Charter\u201d and \u201cmechanisms based on treaties\u201d. The functions of these two mechanisms are different; mechanisms based on the UN Charter are \u201ccountry-oriented\u201d and mechanisms based on treaties are \u201cexpert-oriented\u201d.<\/p>\n Canada\u2019s lack of accountability in country-based mechanisms<\/strong><\/p>\n Mohebali continued: As a result, in country-based mechanisms, we see more politicization, and the impact of the elements of power and interest in them is greater than the expertise-based mechanisms. Under these circumstances, Canada is not only responsible for indigenous killings and genocides, but also for any issues in country-based mechanisms, and countries never engage with Canada, and over politicization plays a major role in this regard.<\/p>\n Mohebali added that mechanisms could be put on the agenda regarding Canada\u2019s crimes, but could not be pursued due to the Human Rights Council\u2019s involvement in politicization.<\/p>\n Necessity of pursuing Canadian human rights abuses in international organizations<\/strong><\/p>\n The international expert of the Judiciary Human Rights Headquarters said that Iran should not remain silent about this human rights violation in Canada, saying: Iran should, in accordance with its constitution, which emphasizes protection of the rights of the oppressed around the world as a duty, use the existing capacities in this regard.<\/p>\n He reminded that the killing and burial of the indigenous people in mass graves took place from 1883 to 1997, and the law prohibiting genocide dates back to 1948, and in fact, this issue still existed from 1948 to 1997, and reference to the convention is relevant in this regard.<\/p>\n Saying that Iran and Canada are members of the 1948 Convention against Genocide, Mohebali stressed the need to pay attention to Article 9 of the Convention on the possibility of referring to the International Court of Justice if there is any dispute over the interpretation or implementation of the treaty and said: This is a capacity for Iran to refer the matter to the Court as an important issue for the international community, as both sides have accepted the Court\u2019s jurisdiction.<\/p>\n He added that a similar lawsuit was filed by Gambia against Myanmar over genocide at the Hague tribunal last year, and the tribunal accepted its initial jurisdiction, as genocide is one of the issues that overshadows the public interest of the international community; therefore we have jurisdiction to sue Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Strategic Council Online – An international expert of Human Rights Headquarters of the Judiciary has stated that Canada is committing gross and systematic human rights violations against indigenous groups, adding: Canada very artistically and abusively uses \u201chuman rights\u201d as a tool and considers it only as a commodity of prestige.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":134922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13289,17,12726],"tags":[29241,20541,29240,24940,23355,13053,22602,21162],"class_list":["post-134960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","category-politics","category-10-en-2","tag-amir-hossein-mohebali","tag-canada","tag-canadian-indigenous-people","tag-genocide","tag-international-court-of-justice","tag-international-law-en","tag-iran","tag-un-charter"],"yoast_head":"\n