Dear Ceasefire.ca supporters, The news from Ottawa is shocking. Senior intelligence officer Richard Colvin repeatedly warned the government about the routine use of torture in Afghan prisons, yet the Canadian Forces continued to hand over their prisoners to brutal Afghan authorities. Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, rather than taking the charges seriously, has instead used a […]
Archive | November, 2009
Who's Who in the Afghan torture investigation
The CBC has compiled a useful guide to the players named in senior intelligence officer Richard Colvin’s testimony.
Richard Colvin's testimony on Afghan torture (2/2)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA_XSKSEZSI
Harper Conservatives smear Canadian senior intel officer as "Taliban dupe"
The Harper Conservatives have reached a new low. Rather than taking seriously the alarming information about the torture of Afghan detainees taken by Canadians and held in Afghan prisons, the Conservative attack-machine tried to smear senior intelligence officer Richard Colvin as a Taliban dupe, says the New York Times in a story by the Associated […]
Richard Colvin's testimony on Afghan torture (1/2)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLycAWlnkgU
And so it begins – Canada starts to plan for Afghanistan troop pull out
With the end date of 2011, Canada’s Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Walter Natynczyk has ordered the beginning of the planning phase of Canada’s military pull out of Afghanistan. The move comes in light of the Harper government’s intent to stick to its end date on Canada’s military participation in Afghanistan and for the […]