Afghan child detainees

More in helping create the future criminal terror, that knows no borders, element adding to the destructive and deadly occupations and rhetoric of hate and condemnation of whole groups!

Canada's handling of Afghan child detainees queried

Children play at the entrance to the women's ward at Sarposa prison, where there are 738 prisoners, 14 of them women with 12 children among them in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 2009. (Dene Moore/Canadian Press)

November 28, 2010 - The Canadian Forces have for years arrested children suspected of working with the Taliban and handed them over to an Afghan security unit accused of torture, CBC News has learned.

Allegations that militants captured by Canada were transferred to Afghan forces and later tortured were hotly debated in Parliament last fall.

A document obtained by the CBC's investigative unit shows that Canadian soldiers captured children as well in the fight against the Taliban, and that many of them were transferred to the custody of Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security, or NDS. {read rest}

Read the briefing note {three page pdf} to Defence Minister Peter MacKay.