What do we think of the canadian government paying Omar Khadr 10 million dollars for human rights volations?

Omar Khadr is a canadian and was a child soldier who killed an american soldier with a grenade during a firefight in Afghanistan. He was a minor but was still sent to Guantanamo where he was abused.
Now he's being awarded 10 million dollars. People are outraged. The widow of the soldier wants to make sure he gets none of that money.
They say he murdered that soldier and that he is a war criminal.

It seems to me that he killed an enemy combatant in a war zone. It seems to me that whatever he did his human rights were still violated in Guantanamo.

So do his critics have a leg to stand on?

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SatanBurger · 36-40, F

Islam extremists are NOT in prison because they are just some misunderstood Buddhist sect in lets say a communist country wrongfully imprisoned. They are not prisoners of war.

They are terrorists. Their intent is way different. Those groups are largely responsible for imposing sharia law on people and punishing Muslim rape victims. I don't remember what town it was in the Middle East but they recently liberated a town and its residents were celebrating because festivals were banned when the Islamic group took over.

At the end of the day the child still has his life but not the one he took.

MetalGreymon · 36-40, M

@satanburger:

There is no evidence that he is or was a terrorist. He was a child soldier. He was taken to Afghanistan by his extremist father and enlisted in a war.

Khadr killed an enemy in a firefight. That's what happens in war. The man who's life he took had literally just taken a couple lives before he was himself killed. That's what happens in war.

He's not a terrorist. He's not a war criminal and he's not a murder.
What he IS, is a canadian citizen who was 15 years old at the time of his incarceration. What he is, is a victim of abuse and torture.

I think 10 million is excessive but i can't say that it is wrong for the canadian government to award him money for the violation of his human rights.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@MetalGreymon: What kind of 15 year old wants to leave a first world country to go to some war torn shit hole to join a religious war? I don't buy it. He should have reported his father but he didn't. That says a whole lot. He must in some way have been radicalized to do that.

MetalGreymon · 36-40, M

@satanburger:

What makes you think he wanted to? What makes you think he had a choice?
How ignorant are you about human psychology that you think it's easy to escape an abusive relationship, ESPECIALLY between child and parent?

Seems to me you're being awfully judgmental given your lack of knowledge of the situation.
All we know for sure is that a 15 year old kid was taken to afghanistan by his radicalized father and enlisted in a war where he killed a soldier what was firing on him. Then he was imprisoned and tortured.