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26. Welcomes the publication of a draft national war crimes strategy, which sets out plans for dealing with the prosecution of crimes committed during the 1990s in the former Yugoslavia; underlines the need to strengthen and depoliticise Serbian institutions which deal with war crimes; calls on Serbia to establish an effective witness and victim protection system and to provide the victims and their families with the right to reparations; calls for improving regional cooperation in war crime cases; reiterates its call on Serbia to re-examine its legislation on jurisdiction in war crime proceedings in the spirit of reconciliation and good-neighbourly relations together with the Commission ...[+++] and with its neighbours;

Benoît Sauvageau moved, That whereas 2,100 Canadian military personnel were captured in Hong Kong and held by the Japanese for 44 months during World War II; Whereas these prisoners suffered abuse and were forced into hard labour by the Japanese; Whereas these Canadians veterans are well founded in fact and in law to claim the amount of $18 per day for the work they carried out for the Japanese during their detention. Whereas no amount of money could really compensate for the years lost by our Hong Kong veterans and the suffering they endured in the service of Canada, our Hong Kong veterans deserve special consideration; Whereas the Unite ...[+++]d Nations Sub-Commission on Human Rights recognized the validity of the claims by the Canadian veterans with regard to their forced labour during World War II in concluding that the Japanese had seriously violated the Geneva Convention; Whereas the Sub-Commission also deems that there is no moratorium on war crimes, Whereas the 1952 peace treaty between Japan and the Allies cannot erase all the claims by Canadian World War II veterans, as their claims involve rights granted under customary international humanitarian law; Whereas the Canadian Government has never demonstrated the necessary will to support its veterans until now; The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade recommends that the Canadian Government:

It was moved, That the motion be amended to read as follows: That whereas 2,100 Canadian military personnel were captured in Hong Kong and held by the Japanese for 44 months during World War II; Whereas these prisoners suffered abuse and were forced into hard labour by the Japanese; Whereas no amount of money could really compensate for the years lost by our Hong Kong veterans and the suffering they endured in the service of Canada, our Hong Kong veterans deserve special consideration; Whereas the United Nations Sub-Commission on Human Rights rec ...[+++]ognized the validity of the claims by the Canadian veterans with regard to their forced labour during World War II in concluding that the Japanese had seriously violated the Geneva Convention; Whereas the Sub-Commission also deems that there is no moratorium on war crimes, The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade recommends that the Canadian Government:

B. whereas the massacre of the Syrian regime against its population, which has driven the country to the brink of civil war, continues; whereas the report of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria of 15 August 2012 concluded that government forces and Shabbiha fighters had committed crimes against humanity as well as war crimes and gross violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, and that these actions had followed state policy with the involvement at the highest levels of the armed and security forces and the government; whereas the UN Commission also reported that war crimes had been perpe ...[+++]trated by anti-government armed groups, even if these had not been of the same gravity, frequency and scale as those committed by government forces and the Shabbiha; whereas UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has repeatedly called on the UN Security Council to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court;