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The record and the falsehoods – The government’s insistence it knew nothing about the torture of Afghan detainees becomes more and more tenuous
December 8, 2009 – 2:01 pm | No Comment
The record and the falsehoods – The government’s insistence it knew nothing about the torture of Afghan detainees becomes more and more tenuous

Editorial in The Globe and Mail

The record speaks for itself on what the Canadian government knows, or should have known, about the torture of Afghan detainees. It speaks far louder than the falsehoods from the …

Grave Allegations: If this week’s testimony by diplomat Richard Colvin is proven, Canada’s complicity in torture goes to the highest levels – an inquiry is needed
November 24, 2009 – 2:40 pm | No Comment
Grave Allegations: If this week’s testimony by diplomat Richard Colvin is proven, Canada’s complicity in torture goes to the highest levels – an inquiry is needed

By Errol Mendes
A courageous Canadian public servant and former diplomat in Afghanistan gave stunning testimony to a parliamentary committee on Wednesday, that while focused on the treatment of detainees transferred to Afghan authorities by …

An open letter to President George W. Bush – By Andrew Sullivan
October 5, 2009 – 1:46 pm | No Comment
An open letter to President George W. Bush – By Andrew Sullivan

Americans want, and need, to move on from the debate over torture in Iraq and Afghanistan and close this tragic chapter in our nation’s history. Prosecuting those responsible could tear apart a country at war. …

Leaked Red Cross report details terror suspect torture by U.S. under Bush
March 16, 2009 – 6:13 pm | No Comment
Leaked Red Cross report details terror suspect torture by U.S. under Bush

WASHINGTON – The tales are horrifyingly medieval in nature – terror suspects beaten, bound and bleeding, forced into coffin-like boxes, shackled naked to their beds in darkened cells, deprived of food for weeks, forced underwater …