14 Facts About Ken Watkin

Ken Watkin was promoted to brigadier general and appointed JAG effective April 2006, for a four-year term.

In June 2010, the Israeli government appointed Ken Watkin to be one of two international observers serving on an Israeli commission of inquiry looking into the events surrounding an Israeli raid on the Mavi Marmara.

Ken Watkin was born in Kingston, Ontario, a non-identical triplet, along with a brother and sister ; he has an older brother.

From 2002 to 2003, Ken Watkin was a visiting fellow at the Human Rights Program of Harvard Law School.

Ken Watkin started his career as an infantry officer in the Royal Canadian Regiment.

Ken Watkin served as a Canadian Forces legal officer, starting in 1982, for 24 years prior to his appointment to JAG.

Ken Watkin was trial counsel at courts-martial and appellate counsel before the Canadian Court Martial Appeal Court.

Ken Watkin worked as legal counsel on several investigations into the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and counselled Canadian naval commanders in Bosnia and during a fisheries dispute with Spain.

Ken Watkin has written papers on the topics of human rights, international humanitarian law, and military operational law.

Ken Watkin testified that he was disturbed by comments made by Lt.

Ken Watkin had been asked to brief the soldiers on the rules of war.

Ken Watkin testified that Mathieu said, "All that doesn't matter, you just throw down some loose rounds".

Ken Watkin advised the Canadian Forces command that they could be "criminally negligent" if they were to transfer detainees to a risk of torture in Afghan hands.

Ken Watkin declined to answer questions on the basis of solicitor-client privilege when called to testify in Canada's House of Commons, saying that the privilege owed to the Government of Canada prevented him answering a number of the House's questions.