Canada's Border Services Agency on Sunday announced they have deported a Peruvian suspected of war crimes and crimes against humanity after he was taken into custody this past week.
Manuel de la Torre Herrera, 57, was questioned in Toronto on July 25, four days after the government published a list of 30 wanted war criminals in Canada and encouraged citizens to help identify the suspects.
Government authorities said de la Torre would be sent back to Peru.
The government did not explain the crimes allegedly committed by the Peruvian national, but the National Post reported that he was a 14-year veteran of Peru's security forces has been hiding in Canada after his asylum request was denied in 2004.
Four other suspects have been arrested in the same operation, a second Peruvian, Henry Pantoja Carbonel; Honduran Cristobal Gonzalez-Ramirez; Pakistani Arshad Muhammad; and a national from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Abraham Bahaty Bayavuge.
Sunday, the Canadian government said that another suspect on the list, Illandaridevage Kulatunga from Sri Lanka, was no longer in Canada.
"Our message is clear: those who are active or complicit in war crimes and crimes against humanity can no longer hide in the shadows," said public safety minister Vic Toews said in a statement earlier in the week.
Source: AFA
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