(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The Thursday protests in Vancouver were inspired by a human rights organization, Amnesty International.
Amnesty International believes Bush to be a war criminal and called on the Canadian government to arrest him the moment he enters the country.
The protesters consider Bush to be responsible for “Mass murders” and “ torture,” a protester said, adding that Bush has been known as “the commander of the utterly illegal war on Iraq that has caused the death of over 1.2 million Iraqi people.”
“For some of us that have grandparents that fought in World War II to defend our Canadian values, it is appalling that Bush is being welcomed here,” another protester said.
Bush, along with former US president Bill Clinton, have come to the one-day economic summit held in the city of Surrey, a suburb of Vancouver, to discuss the world's new economic realities according to the official agenda. Protesters, however, believe Bush's input was futile.
“It's beyond ironic, beyond satire, Clinton and Bush are the parents of the current economic crisis,” a protester said.
The Canadian Center for International justice claims to have over 4000 pages of documents supporting its case to try Bush under the Canadian criminal code.
This in conjunction with a letter signed by over 50 different human right organizations around the globe including Amnesty International which accuses the former US president of authorizing "torture" when he directed the US-led war on terror.
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