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Post by moabiter on May 16, 2010 10:03:39 GMT -8
MPs reach agreement to share Afghan detainee document information Juliet O'Neill, Canwest News Service: Friday, May 14, 2010 OTTAWA — Between 20,000 and 40,000 uncensored pages of documents about Canada's handling of Afghan detainees will be secretly examined by a security-cleared all-party committee of MPs under a government-opposition deal announced Friday that is being hailed as a milestone for parliamentary democracy. news.globaltv.com/world/reach+Afghan+detainee+agreement/3028052/story.html
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Post by moabiter on Jun 13, 2010 15:48:20 GMT -8
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Post by pissed off on Jun 25, 2011 21:33:04 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Jun 26, 2011 9:13:54 GMT -8
So, who's in charge, now that the quagmire is over.
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Post by clone on Jul 3, 2011 23:06:38 GMT -8
Francis Roy, Canada Soldier, Dead In Afghanistan In Non-Combat Related Incident Updated: 06/26/11 02:21 PM ET If suicide is determined, it would be the second such case in a month. The body of Bombardier Karl Manning, 31, a native of Chicoutimi, Que., was found by fellow soldiers at a remote base near Zangabad on May 28. The task force's senior chaplain, Maj. Grahame Thompson, said it's a tough time for the soldiers with only three weeks remaining in the combat mission. "We are focused on what we need to do," he said. "I think for some, those who were closest to the member are going to find it more difficult than others." The special forces operate independently of regular troops and are tasked with hunting down the Taliban leadership and conducting specialized raids and disruption operations against insurgents. It's a highly secretive organization and none of Roy's friends are allowed to speak with the media. www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/06/25/francis-roy-canada-soldier-death-afghanistan_n_884580.html
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Post by clone on Sept 12, 2011 11:09:23 GMT -8
Nato stops sending prisoners to Afghan jails over torture fears General said to have ordered suspension of transfers ahead of UN report expected to tell of beatings and electric shocks Tuesday 6 September 2011 18.30 BST Nato has suspended the transfer of detainees to some Afghan jails after fears they were being subjected to systematic torture, British defence officials have said. The directive, issued this week, comes ahead of the imminent release of a UN report into detainees that is expected to be highly critical of the Afghan police, who process many of the detainees through the fledgling justice system. The report is understood to outline how prisoners are routinely beaten, given electric shocks and subjected to other human rights violations, some within private jails run by police commanders. The order from the head of the Nato-led mission, General John Allen, is understood to have directed with immediate effect that prisoners not be transferred to nine locations, including one in Kabul, where the abuse was reportedly the worst. www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/06/afghan-jail-torture-fears-nato
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Post by clone on Dec 23, 2011 13:47:55 GMT -8
Afghan detainee report in MacKay's hands Posted: Dec 22, 2011 10:40 AM PT The interim report contains findings and recommendations and won't be made public. It was sent Wednesday to MacKay, Natynczyk, the office of the judge advocate general and the Canadian Forces provost marshal. The commission, an independent body that provides civilian oversight for the military police, now waits for national defence leadership to review the interim report and to respond with "any action that has been or will be taken with respect to the complaint," said a news release Thursday. Once that notice of action is given back, the complaints commission will write its final report, which will be made public. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/12/22/pol-afghan-detainees-report.html
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Post by clone on Jan 6, 2012 20:13:51 GMT -8
Iraqi Torture Scandal Touches Highest Levels of NATO Thursday 5 January 2012 Yet, three months before the prison inspection, in May 2004, during a debate in the Danish Parliament concerning Iraqi prisoners, according to the paper Politik & International (English translation here), then-Prime Minister Rasmussen said the government would "disclose information about torture, if the government becomes aware that it occurs." But evidently, this did not occur. According to The Copenhagen Report, a Danish English-language daily, the July 2004 investigation by Danish Army legal adviser Maj. Kurt Borgkvist revealed that "prisoners in Iraqi prisons had been burned with cigarettes, had their molars crushed and been beaten around their genitals. Some were even missing fingers, Borgkvist reported." The resulting report included photographic evidence, which has been described as "Abu Ghraib-lignende" ("Abu Ghraib-like") by the previous Danish defense minister. www.truth-out.org/iraqi-torture-scandal-touches-highest-levels-nato/1325794053
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