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US urged to free young Guantanamo detainees
By EDITH M. LEDERER,Associated Press Writer AP - Thursday, April 30
UNITED NATIONS - Military lawyers for two young Guantanamo detainees urged the U.S. on Wednesday to follow protocols it signed in 2002 on child soldiers and release the juveniles being held at the U.S. military prison in Cuba.
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Navy Cmdr. Walter Ruiz and Marine Maj. Eric Montalvo timed their news conference to a daylong open meeting of the United Nations Security Council on children and armed conflict. They singled out U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice's statement reiterating American opposition to child soldiers and support for council action against those governments and militias that persist in recruiting and using them.
Ruiz said it was important that the United States first acknowledge that "we have issues in our own backyard that we very much need to address ... before we presume to lead the world."
Ruiz represents Omar Khadr, a Canadian who was 14 or 15 when he was accused of killing an American soldier with a grenade during a 2002 battle in Afghanistan. Montalvo represents Mohammed Jawad who is accused of throwing a grenade that injured two American soldiers and their interpreter in Afghanistan in 2002, when he was 16 or 17.
A third juvenile, Mohamed el-Gharani from Chad, was accused of being a member of al-Qaida in 1998 when he was 11 years old and was arrested in Pakistan at age 14. He is also at Guantanamo despite a U.S. judge's order in January that the military release him, they said.
The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict bans the recruitment of children under the age of 18 and orders states that sign it to demobilize any child soldiers and accord them "all appropriate assistance for their physical and psychological recovery and their social integration."
Ruiz said the U.S., as a signatory, has "the responsibility to take people who come into our jurisdiction as child soldiers and help them reintegrate, help them be educated in our society."
Obama established an Executive Review Committee to go over the cases of remaining Guantanamo detainees including Khadr and Jawad.
Last week, a Canadian court ruled the government must ask the U.S. to return Khadr to Canada but the government later said it has 30 days to decide on an appeal. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has refused to get involved in Khadr's case, saying the U.S. legal process has to play itself out.
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