Opposition MPs are wary about the Defence Department's commitment to produce all documents on detainee transfers in Afghanistan following the Army's inexplicable failure to locate a month's worth of crucial logs and reports for an internal inquiry into detainee beating at the hands of Afghan police in 2006.
The MPs, and a lawyer for Amnesty International at an inquiry into detainee handling by the military police, also note that the Canadian Forces have yet to produce sensitive detainee documents Army officers say have been lost for at least two years in sea containers that serve as storage bins for Canadian military headquarters at Kandahar Air Field in southern Afghanistan.
Despite the House of Commons agreement last week on a formula that will allow MPs to finally view the contested documents related to allegations Canadian-held detainees were tortured after transfer to Afghans, MPs say the loss of documents surrounding the 2006 incident raises comparisons to Defence Department attempts to hide and destroy documents demanded by a commission of inquiry into the beating death of a Somali civilian by Canadian troops in 1993.
Source: The Hill Times
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