M. Richard Colvin, who spent over a year in Afghanistan as a diplomat for the Canadian government, has refutted government claims that there were no warnings that there was abuse of detainees in the Afghan prisons under the auspices of the Ottawa.According to M. Colvin, he sent numerous reports during his tenure as Canadian diplomat in the country, which were systematically ignored by top officials in Afghanistan and Canada alike. The warnings were apparently very explicit, and casts a shadow on the Harper government which maintains that it was unaware of the human rights abuses taking place on their watch.
Could this issue finally be the tipping point which will bring down the Harper administration, after years of mismanagment, negligence and shadowy deal-making? Will the opposition parties step up and demand culpability for these agregious violations of the most basic rights, the very pretence for the continued presence of the Canadian military in Afghanistan? Only time will tell
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