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Canada's Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes
Program
Regimes Designated Pursuant to 35(1)(b) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
Section 35(1)(b)
of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act gives the Canadian
government the authority to designate governments considered to have
engaged in gross human rights violations, war crimes or crimes against
humanity. Senior officials of those regimes, including senior diplomats
and senior military officers, are considered complicit in war crimes
or crimes against humanity.
- designated 16 June 1993, extended
on August 15, 1997:
the Bosnian Serb regime between 27 March
1992 until 10 October 1996;
- designated 12 October 1993:
the Siad Barré regime in Somalia between
1969 and 1991;
- designated 8 April 1994:
the former military governments in Haiti between
1971 and 1986, and between 1991 and 1994, except the period August-December
1993;
- designated 21 October 1994:
the former Marxist regimes of Afghanistan between
1978 and 1992;
- designated 3 September 1996, amended 9 September, 2004:
the governments of Ahmed Hassan Al-Bakr and Saddam Hussein in power
from 1968 to May
22, 2003.
- designated 27 April 1998:
the Government of Rwanda under President Habyarimana between October
1990 and April 1994, as well as the interim government in power
between April 1994 and July 1994;
- designated 30 June 1999, amended March 14, 2001:
the Governments of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic
of Serbia (Milosevic) between February 28, 1998, and October 7,
2000;
- designated 14 March 2001, amended 9 September 2004: the
Taliban regime in Afghanistan from September 27, 1996 to December
22, 2001.
- designated November 21, 2003: the
government of Ethiopia under Mengistu Haile Mariam, covering the period of
September 12, 1974 to May 21, 1991.
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