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Canada's handling of young Afghan detainees queried
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Mon Nov 29, 2010 CBC News
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.
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Defence Minister Peter MacKay received a memo in March about Canada's handling of Afghan child prisoners. (David Smith/Canadian Press)
