I will give Amnesty International credit for this much -- they're a persistent bunch.
Former president Bush visited Canada on October 20, and not long before he arrived Amnesty asked that he be placed in handcuffs the minute he stepped off the plane. Here's the full background: http://mexicogulfreporter.blogspot.com/2011/10/amnesty-international-demands-that.html
Of course, Canada never responded to the demand. Arresting Bush wouldn't have been very neighborly of P.M. Steven Harper, would it?
Now Bush is on a tour of sub-Saharan Africa, and Amnesty has already cabled the governments of Tanzania, Ethiopia and Zambia, seeking his detention. Don't bet on it, since Bush is traveling through the region on behalf of the George W. Bush Institute's campaign for global health. The current trip focuses on the treatment and prevention of breast and uterine cancer in those countries.
Amnesty calls Bush a war criminal for acts committed during U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, and for torture employed against detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Other details are in the above link. Amnesty says any country Bush passes through has the duty under international law to take him into custody. I express no opinion on the merits of the case, other than to say it makes the recent allegations of war crimes by Mexican president Felipe Calderón look like a parking ticket by comparison.
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