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An 88-year-old accused war criminal has once again been stripped of his Canadian citizenship, following the latest initiative to deport him that was quietly spearheaded by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney.

Court filings show the Conservative government signed an order in-council on Sept. 27, 2012, reaffirming the government’s right to strip Helmut Oberlander of his citizenship and send him back to Europe.

This is the latest in a string of efforts to kick out the Ukrainian Canadian from Canada for complicity in war crimes. The Waterloo resident has long upheld he never killed anyone during the time he served the Nazis as a conscripted translator. He first got his Canadian citizenship in 1960, and has been fighting the government’s efforts to remove him since the mid-1990s.

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