Arar's case a possible shame for Canadian Police (RCMP) and Security Agencies

Maher Arar has recently publicly spoken about his life in captivity of Syrians. The ordeal he's been through and the level and style of torture imposed on him is unbelievably hard to even imagine.

The United Sates has always put Syria in the list of worst human rights abusers and has accused Syria of using torture against people, yet, and acknowledging this fact, United States deported Arar; a Canadian citizen, back to not Canada but to Syria where he was expected to be tortured. United States has one more time shown how disrespectful it is towards human rights and one more time broke the international agreements that prohibits deporting people to countries where they can be tortured. Father of two and a software engineer, Arar has spoken about his time in custody of FBI in New York while trying to connect to a flight to Canada. He was not allowed to eat or sleep for 28 hours. FBI had him sign forms that he was not allowed to read. He wasn't allowed to contact a lawyer and for six days, they wouldn't allow him contact anybody. They showed him a copy of an Ottawa rental lease he had signed in 1997. Also they mentioned so many other information about him that only could have come from Canada. And that is where the possibility of an unholy cooperation of the Canadian and US officials against this man.

This is seriously alarming as there is a possibility for the recurrence of such actions against the life of good citizens such as Arar who has never had a problem with Law but because he was born in a Muslim country.

Arar now is pushing for a public inquiry about this issue and so far, although sympathizing with him, Canadian government has refused such inquiry and has only blamed Syria and the United States for their abusive actions. Canadians have the right to know what happened and why it happened to Arar in order to make sure this doesn't happen to other people. Canadians have the right to ask their government to more strongly condemn the Syrian and American officials and push for a formal apology and compansation for Mr. Arar. Also, Canadians have the right to know whether Canadian Police and secrete services played any role in this obvious abuse of human rights.

Thomas Walkom, a Toronto Star columnist has written about Arar's case in his coloumn Canadian citizen let down by his own government .

Also Read what another Toronto Star columnist; Graham Fraser who wrote about Arar's Syrian hell: "he lived in a grave" .