OTTAWA, ON, August 3, 1993 - "Canada violated the Geneva Convention by signing the 1952 Peace Treaty with Japan and in doing so failed to include provision for adequate compensation for slave labour under which some 1,500 veterans of the Hong Kong contingent were forced to work in Japanese industries under deplorable conditions."

This statement was made today by Cliff Chadderton, CEO of The War Amps, in response to an editorial in the Toronto Star urging the Canadian Government to either support The War Amps claim against Japan or pay the claim itself.

The liability of the Canadian Government was set out in a letter to Perrin Beatty, Minister for External Affairs, from Cliff Chadderton of The War Amps, dated July 20th, of this year.

Chadderton has spearheaded the claim through the United Nations Human Rights Commission since 1987.