Canada’s Commandos JTF2 Committed War Crimes in Afghanistan

JTF2 Command ’Encouraged’ War Crimes Soldier Alleges
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2011...

"A member of Canada’s elite special forces unit says he felt his peers were being ’encouraged’ by the Canadian Forces chain of command to commit war crimes in Afghanistan, according to new documents obtained by CBC News.

The member alleged that a fellow JTF2 member was involved in the shooting death of an Afghan who had his hands up in the act of surrender...The soldier who raised the allegations also claimed that in January 2008, his team was sent to conduct a mission alongside an American special operations team. He said he witnessed the US forces kill a man who was wounded and unarmed."

Canada has yet to be forthcoming about the fate of Afghan detainees they transferred to both the Afghan authorities and the US ones. Many were apparently tortured or worse. This was known to the Canadian authorities.

"These are detestable murderers and scumbags, I’ll tell you that right up front. They detest our freedom, they detest our society, they detest our liberties. We are the Canadian Forces and our job is to be able to kill people."

Canada’s Chief of Defence Staff General Hillier, July 11, 2005, on the Afghan resistance to NATO’s illegal invasion, occupation and war crimes.

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