Author ORCID Identifier

Craig Scott: 0000-0002-1661-7932

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2024

Keywords

Shidane Arone, torture as tort, torture, Crown liability, Somalia, Canada, peacekeeping

Abstract

This piece is a brief note introducing two documents, the statement of claim for and the sole judgment in Abukar Arone Rage and Dahabo Omar Samow by their Litigation Guardian Abdullahi Godah Barre v. The Attorney General of Canada (unreported, 6 July 1999, Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Cunningham J). The case concerns the efforts by family of Shidane Arone to sue the Government of Canada for civil damages for the torture and then death from torture of Arone at the hands of Canadian soldiers operating in Somalia as part of a UN mission. The case remains unreported by any service, including in any of the Dominion Law Reports, the Ontario Reports and CanLII.org. Therefore, the note includes, as appendices, the following:

Appendix 1 – Statement of Claim (April 13, 1999); and Appendix 2 – Judgment of Cunningham J (July 6, 1999).

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