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Heavily censored Afghan documents raise new questions about transfers
Newly released documents show a Canadian soldier alleges that Afghan authorities routinely executed detainees his unit handed over to them.
The stack of records disclosed Thursday by the federal government also says detainees at a Kandahar prison told Foreign Affairs and Corrections Canada officials on a site tour that they had been tortured.
And they reveal that a Canadian military policewoman stationed at the Kandahar base was assaulted in early 2008 upon getting out of the shower and told to mind her own business.
The opposition parties have been pressing for full access to documents about the detainee transfers, saying they will help explain what politicians and military commanders knew about the simmering affair.
The government tabled more than 2,500 pages on the issue Thursday, but the heavily censored material was greeted with scorn from the opposition.
Questions have lingered since diplomat-whistleblower Richard Colvin's allegations last year that most prisoners Canada transferred to Afghan custody were subsequently tortured.