CBC: Ottawa expected detainee allegations: memo

[tuvor]

The government began writing a plan to deal with potential Afghan torture accusations months before allegations first came up in the media, a new document obtained by CBC News suggests.

The memorandum, drafted by officials at the Department of Foreign Affairs, says that if "NGOs, relatives, media or otherwise, make credible allegations that detainees transferred by CF to Afghan authorities have been potentially abused following their transfer," officials must inform the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission and the Red Cross "and to follow up separately to address potential concerns with the conditions of detention."

First drafts of the documents were written as early as March 2007, months before the Globe and Mail reported that 30 transferred Canadian detainees were "beaten, whipped, starved, frozen, choked and subjected to electric shocks during interrogations."

The timing of the memorandum shows the government was concerned about the possibility detainees were being abused while in Afghan custody long before revelations first came out.

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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/03/08/detainees-afghan-government.html

[Spazito]

1. I must say I find it very interesting ...

it seems the Canadian media are the recipients of documents from sources as opposed to ones being accessed via the Freedom of Information Act. The 'leaks' of these documents are coming faster and faster much to the dismay, no doubt, of the harper cabal.

Kudos to those who are providing the documents, memos, etc!

At the bottom of the article it says: More to Come.....hmmmm, this could be very interesting.

[HeresyLives]

2. So they knew what they were doing was wrong,

and they planned the cover-up some time ago.

[Spazito]

3. Yep, no surprise there...

what is pleasantly surprising is the continued leak of documents about it and that the media is not letting the issue drop much as the harper cabal had hoped would happen with the proroguing of Parliament.