Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Canadian Complicity in Afghan Torture

From Truthdig, outlining Canada's complicity in the torture of Afghan detainees. Key passage:

For the European members of NATO - especially the British and Dutch - the political driver was the need to distance themselves from a U.S. detainee policy already tainted by accounts of U.S. torture.
The U.S. and Canada supported such transfers, however, in the belief that NDS interrogators could get better intelligence from the detainees.
The transfers to the NDS were a direct violation of the United Nations Convention against Torture, which forbids the transfer of any person by a State Party to "another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture."
Perhaps Prime Minister Layton will have a Parliamentary committee look into this, as both Ignatieff and Harper have made their agreement with such policies quite clear.

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