The diplomat has dropped the diplomacy: Richard Colvin provided new details of his warnings to Ottawa about the risks of torture facing detainees handed over to Afghan authorities by Canadian soldiers. Details in Colvin’s 16-page letter to the committee stand in sharp contrast to the version of events given by three cabinet ministers, three generals and senior bureaucrats like David Mulroney, who steered the Afghan task force in Ottawa. Contrary to the government’s claims that Colvin’s was a lone voice, and did not provide specific evidence or explicitly warn that “torture” was an issue, Colvin’s letter spells out that his concerns were shared back in 2006 by Kandahar-based personnel, as well as by Canada’s military allies in the International Security Assistance Force or ISAF. By the end of December 2006, Colvin’s letter states the embassy’s annual human rights report warned “torture” is rife in Afghan jails, as are “extrajudicial executions and disappearances.”
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