Canada's complicity in torture since 2002 must be ended

ABUSE OF PRISONERS:

Debate continues in Parliament and across the country about two issues that have become emblematic of the worrying ways that human rights have been undermined and sold short in the name of security: the fate of Ornar Khadr and the handling of prisoners apprehended by Canadian troops in Afghanistan.

Both have been prominent on the public, political, and media agenda in recent months. Both raise very troubling questions about Canadian complicity in torture. Both remain unresolved. And both begin on the battlefield in Afghanistan, back in 2002.

That is when Canadian troops first deployed in Afghanistan. From the outset, Canadian military brass and …