Feds blocking Detainee Inquiry

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Ottawa hopes to block probe into Afghan detainees

The government is seeking to block an independent investigation by the Military Police Complaints Commission into Canada's handling of Afghan detainees, according to court documents filed in Federal Court.

Amnesty International Canada and the B.C. Civil Liberties Association filed a complaint with the commission last year, after allegations surfaced that detainees had been tortured by local Afghan authorities.

Government lawyers filed an application Friday to halt the investigation, saying the commission does not have jurisdiction to probe the complaints.
"(The) transfer of detainees is a military operation which does not form part of the 'policing duties and functions' for which the MPCC has oversight,'" the application states.

http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/Top...tainees_080413
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Does that ever raise suspicions!!! What are they trying to hide? I'm getting alarmed!! Have Canadians done a bit of torturing themselves? Like the Germans? Like the Americans?
I definitely want that independent inquiry!!

 

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Here is a website with Comments to above article. An example here:

ImaCANADIAN ! from Canada writes: In its 2006 report, the US State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor concluded that the abuse and torture of prisoners and detainees continued:

'Credible observers reported that local authorities in Herat, Helmand, and other locations routinely tortured and abused detainees,' it noted. 'Torture and abuse consisted of pulling out fingernails and toenails, burning with hot oil, sexual humiliation and sodomy.'

'In Kabul, prisoner Abdul Rahman alleged that local authorities beat him with rubber hoses and wood batons during his four-month-detention. According to the UN, police in the northern district of Faryab reported that a commander and former district governor severely beat a group of teachers and detained them in his private jail during the year.'

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61704.htm
http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20070307_121257_5348

In 2005, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission reported that torture 'continues to take place as a routine part of police procedures ... particularly at the investigation stage in order to extort confessions from detainees.'

http://www.aihrc.org.af/mon_inv.htm

Bring our troops home in 2009 before the 2010 games.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...comment1928766

Our government is trying to hide something!!!