“Canadian authorities were informed on November 5, 2007, by Canada’s monitoring team, of a credible allegation of mistreatment pertaining to one Canadian-transferred detainee held in an Afghan detention facility,” wrote senior counsel J. Sanderson Graham. “As a consequence there have been no transfers of detainees to Afghan authorities since that date. The allegation is under investigation by the Afghan authorities. Canada will resume transferring detainees when it believes it can do so in accordance with its international legal obligations.

Last year the federal government said torture of prisoners didn’t happen. Then the Canadian public was told there was no credible information Afghan detainees being handed over by Canadian troops were being tortured, then told steps were being taken to see prisoners weren’t tortured. 
Shortly after, voters heard a Monitoring Agreement was set up with the Afghan government.

It didn’t work.
While I can commend the federal government for finally stopping the transfer of prisoners to Afghan authorities, what we aren’t being told is how many Afghanis have been captured by Canadian military since this November decision, where they are being held, and what the charges are.

While this information is public because of legal action by Amnesty International and the B.C. Civil Liberties Union, I fail to see why this has been kept secret. Initially the federal government protested too much. We don’t know how many Afghani’s were tortured after being handed over by Canadian troops.

This has been profound insult to the Canadian military and their goals. If they are now able to do thier jobs without having to wonder about who is getting tortured as a direct result of military taking prisoners,  good. 
Torture is torture, no matter how the Maxime Berniers in our government dance around semantics. 
While opposition parties were treated disgracefully when the initial information came out last year, it is our troops that faced the hardships knowing doing their jobs put Afghanis in further danger. We have been silent, and complicit.
We knew a corrupt Afghan goverment tortured, we’ve known the US tortured. While our troops wished to honour human rights and the Geneva Convention in a lawless, corrupt narco-state, human rights were not honoured, and it is not the fault of our troops.  Globe and Mail:

The government kept the its decision under wraps, even as it prepared to fight rights groups seeking a halt to transfers and as it tried to drum up public support for extending Canada’s commitment to wage war on the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.

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