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Teen deported for suspected Nazi war crimes
May 19, 2023
TORONTO, Ont. (CP) In a landmark decision that has earned praise from
Jewish community leaders and raised eyebrows among some conservative
legal scholars, Judge Herschel Gold yesterday ordered the grandson of
a suspected Nazi war criminal deported to the Ukraine.
Robert, 15, will be escorted by RCMP officers to Pearson International
Airport early next week.
The government has alleged that Rauliuk’s grandfather, Evhen Rauliuk,
served as a cook in Schuma 118 Police Battalion in Byelorussia and
that from 1942 to 1944 he prepared nourishing hot meals for his unit
while it conducted actions against partisans and committed atrocities
against civilians.
Rauliuk, dubbed the “Butcher Chef of Byelorusse,” died from a heart
failure last November at the age of 98, allegedly induced by an often
vocal around-the-clock vigil conducted by a local Jewish youth league
outside the Placid Valley Geriatric Home where he had resided since
1981.
His premature demise compelled a change of tactics on the part of the
Crown, which at the urging of several Jewish organizations filed new
charges against his grandson under the Multicultural Justice Act, an
omnibus legal reform law facilitating equitable outcomes in legal
cases involving designated ethno-cultural groups.
Robert Rauliuk is the first person charged under the new act. Legal
observers believe his conviction may lay the groundwork for charges
against the descendants of other deceased alleged war criminals.
In recent years the declining number of East Europeans available for deportation has negatively affected Canada’s war-crimes industry,
insiders report. It is hoped that the unprecedented intergenerational
features of the Rauliuk case will re-invigorate the pursuit of
justice.
The court heard evidence that the Butcher Chef failed to reveal his participation in crimes against humanity when applying for Canadian
citizenship in 1951 and therefore obtained citizenship by false
representation and knowing concealment of circumstances. Judge Gold
ruled that because Evhen Rauliuk’s citizenship was invalid and his son
Ivan, now deceased, born outside of Canada, Robert Rauliuk was in
violation of the Illegal Domicile Act of 1876 and could be stripped of
his citizenship and deported to his genealogical place of origin.
Noted Talmudic scholar and civil-rights activist Rabbi Gunther Plaut
testified for the Crown on the role of inter-generational punishment
in the Western tradition of jurisprudence.
In a statement released this morning, David Matas, senior legal
counsel for B'nai Brith Canada, applauded Judge Gold’s controversial
decision, under section 379b of the Multicultural Justice Act, to bar
defence attorneys from the courtroom in order to expedite the trial.
“Since the start of the court proceedings, the case against the two
Rauliuks has been bogged down in minor legal technicalities,
shamelessly brought up by the defense, which prevented the
government’s allegations from ever being judged on their merit,” Matas
said. “It was a bold decision, but the right one under the
circumstances.”
Bernie Farber, Community Relations director for the Canadian Jewish
Congress, expressed a quiet pride at the verdict, which he attributed
to the many years his organization has spent lobbying a succession of
Justice Ministers for the passage of the Multicultural Justice Act.
“We feel that justice has been served,” Farber said at an impromptu
victory celebration held in front of Toronto’s Ukranian Cultural
Centre. “Evhen Rauliuk was getting pretty feeble and may not have
survived the trip to the airport, but Robert is young and vigorous, he
has his life in front of him, and his family will miss him. It’s a
much more satisfying conclusion, ethically speaking.”
Farber also called for restraint in the Ukranian community, many of
whom were fearful that deportations for alleged war crimes may now be
prolonged indefinitely.
“Anti-Semitism is not a term I use lightly, although I do use it
often,” Farber added. “But in this case it’s fully justified. Those
Jew-hating Bohunks must come to terms with their virulent
anti-Semitism.”
Robert Rauliuk, contacted at the Downsview Youth Detention Facility,
expressed surprise at the verdict.
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