Reply #11: His words mean jack-shit, he doesn't know nor care what [View All]

[Spazito]

happens to those transferred as is shown further down in the article:

Canada has provided few details on the fate of detainees its forces have handed over to U.S. authorities since 2002; neither the number nor the names have been made public. All the government has said is that none are currently at Guantanamo Bay. But it's unknown whether they have been released, or are being held at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan or in secret prisons in Eastern Europe.

Similar secrecy cloaks what happens to detainees handed over to Afghan authorities by Canadian Forces fighting in Kandahar province. Gen. Gauthier indicated such transfers occur regularly, if not daily then several times a week. But no numbers are publicly available.

“Our default setting is transfer,” he said. “We haven't held anybody for more than a few hours and we would prefer not to.”

Unlike the US, Canada is a member of the ICC and war crime charges can be laid because transferring prisoners into other hands does NOT absolve us of the responsibility of what happens to them after the transfer.