Via PiePalace.ca: Sorry to say that we’ve just become aware that, last November, a

Richard Colvin by Pawel Dwulit for the Toronto Star

career Canadian diplomat blew the whistle on Afghani torture of prisoners turned over by Canadian troops.

a senior Canadian diplomat, Richard Colvin, who told a parliamentary committee last week that “the likelihood is that all the Afghans we handed over were tortured” during his time as second in command at the embassy in Kabul in 2006 and 2007.

Ian Austen, General Says Canada Fears for Afghans (The New York Times, November 22, 2009).

In the same piece, Austen reports a  “vigorous campaign by the Conservative government to discredit [Colvin’s] testimony.”

PiePalace.ca has one excellent piece which is well-documented and makes clear what’s going on: Torture and the Afghanistan Mission.

See also

Richard Colvin: Portrait of a whistleblower by Tonda MacCharles of The Toronto Star.