Richard Colvin and Afghan detainees/Update: Six of his (redacted) memos
Yesterday, with further links:
"In their own words: David Mulroney's opening statement at Afghanistan committee"Today: Blatchford of the Globe (pro-Afghan mission, more here) has some reservations. Read on...
E-mail trail only adds to Afghan questionsUpdate: Six of Mr Colvin's (redacted) memos, via the CBC and Amnesty International:
Richard Colvin's secret correspondence provides little light on detainee issue after a week in which Ottawa rejected his claims
For a week, diplomat Richard Colvin's accusations about Canada's handling of its Afghan prisoners – and their subsequent alleged torture at the hands of Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security – dominated headlines and Parliament, despite the fact that no one had seen the e-mails in which Mr. Colvin said he had tried to wake Ottawa to the problem he saw as so serious.
The Globe and Mail now has what appears to be the entire collection of the e-mails Mr. Colvin sent on the subject during the 17 months he spent in Afghanistan from April of 2006 to October of 2007. A couple are virtually completely blacked out; some are heavily redacted, others rattle on at such length they could have done with a little more redacting.
It seems to have been Mr. Colvin's visit to the provincial prison in Kandahar city on May 16, 2006, that first triggered his concern. But that inspection and an earlier one upon which he relied, made in December of 2005 by the International Committee of the Red Cross, were, in the Afghan context, practically sunny about their findings...
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posted by Mark, Ottawa at 2:21 p.m.
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