CP: Afghans routinely executed detainees: soldier

[tuvor]

A Canadian soldier has alleged that Afghan authorities routinely executed detainees his unit handed over to them, newly released documents show.

The stack of records released Thursday by the federal government also said detainees at a Kandahar prison told Foreign Affairs and Corrections Canada officials on a site tour that they had been tortured.

And they reveal that a Canadian military policewoman stationed at the Kandahar base was assaulted in early 2008 and told to mind her own business.

Questions have lingered since diplomat-whistleblower Richard Colvin's allegations last year that most prisoners Canada transferred to Afghan custody were subsequently tortured.

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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/03/25/afghan-detainees-documents025.html

[daleo]

1. The truth is going to be ugly

War is ugly, which is all the more reason to abide by what rules there are.