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Thursday 3 February 2011

Mounties should probe Afghan abuse allegations

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Mounties should probe Afghan abuse allegations: Lawyer - thestar.com: "Canada’s top military police officer should request an investigation by the RCMP into allegations Canadians committed war crimes in Afghanistan, a human rights lawyer says.

At the closing arguments of a hearing into complaints that Canada’s battlefield prisoners were abused when soldiers handed them to Afghan authorities in Kandahar, Amnesty International lawyer Paul Champ said military police charged with keeping Canada on the right side of international law were intimidated and marginalized by senior commanders into ignoring the torture allegations.

His recommendation Wednesday to the Military Police Complaints Commission, was that the Canadian Forces Provost Marshall ask the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to look into the long-standing allegations that Canadians were complicit in torture."

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