The documents tabled last week can be viewed in their entirety here. Herein, a series of posts on some of the noteworthy files and disclosures contained therein.
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‘Nothing changes’
Graeme Smith talks to the director of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission.
The past few days in things that are somewhat more consequential
Gen. Walter Natynczyk has written to the special committee on Afghanistan to outline the military’s account of one of the events referenced last week by Malgarai Ahmadshah.
‘Commonplace among the the majority of law enforcement institutions’
As the Star notes, the U.S. State Department has released its annual human rights reports for the countries of the world, including Afghanistan.
Past due
While Richard Colvin awaits the necessary funds to pay his legal bills, the Liberals have publicly tabled some of the dozens of written questions they had put on the order paper and were awaiting government response when the second session of the 40th Parliament met its untimely demise. Included among them, several on the matter of Afghan detainees. To wit.
‘Strategic (Macro) Level Engagement’
Canadian Press gains access to internal documents and finds talking points, expressed concerns and wrangling over contingencies.
The Colvin encyclopedia
A collection of documents, testimony and news reports related to Richard Colvin and Canada’s handling of Afghan detainees. The Colvin encyclopedia is updated as events warrant.
What should have been known and when?
Gen. Michel Gauthier made reference Wednesday afternoon to the Globe and Mail’s reporting in April 2007 as to when he first became aware of allegations of torture. Without the transcript of his comments it’s unclear—from my memory and what’s being reported elsewhere—how precisely he qualified that statement, whether he was referring to specific allegations of general torture, specific allegations related to detainees transferred by Canadian Forces, or something else entirely.
The Commons: Prove it
“These are not things we can take holus-bolus”
What happened to those 130?
The government has long maintained that to disclose the number of detainees transferred by Canadian Forces in Afghanistan would violate operational security, but a government source now tells the Globe that approximately 130 were transferred during the first 14 months of combat operations in Kandahar.