Former Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler: An important question that has been missed. How did a veteran of the SS Galicia division] end up in Canada in the first place and he was not prosecuted?
Former Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler: An important question that has been missed. How did a veteran of the SS Galicia division] end up in Canada in the first place and he was not prosecuted?
It’s been a week for this guy. Went from being applauded for being a nazi to steps being taken to hold him accountable for his crimes.^[cbc.ca/…/yaroslav-hunka-poland-minister-extradite…]
But our institutions need to find the rest of them to hold them accountable.
Poland's education minister says he has "taken steps" to effect the extradition to Poland of Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old Ukrainian Canadian, after it emerged that the veteran served in the Nazi SS Galizien formation during the Second World War.