Barry Artiste Op/Ed
After reading this, one can understand why some protestors wish Afghanistan and the Middle East should be left to their own devices, when apparently even our allies are as brutal as the Taliban they are trying to destroy.
Atrocities against men women and particularly children will never see the Light of Day in an International courts as most turn a blind eye to those who suffer at the hands of their supposed protectors.
We will have a Canadian Investigation, but I feel it will just turn into a “Please do not do that again”, we are really powerless to do anything in a Country when we try to impose our own moral and political will.
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=142a4a92-9423-4116-b970-cd447ad2a98a
Claims of Afghan soldiers raping boys prompts Canadian investigation
David Pugliese, Canwest News Service Published: Friday, October 03, 2008
The Canadian Forces will launch a board of inquiry to look into allegations that soldiers’ complaints about Afghan troops and police raping boys were ignored by the military leadership.
Military police have also launched an investigation into the same incidents. The issue surfaced in the summer after media reports detailed soldiers’ concerns about sexual abuse of boys at the hands of Afghan personnel.
In June, the Toronto Star reported that, in late 2006, a Canadian soldier had heard an Afghan soldier raping a young boy at one of the outposts near Kandahar.
The soldier later saw the injuries the boy sustained, including seeing his lower intestines falling out of his body, a sign of trauma from anal rape.
The soldier, who now suffers from post-traumatic stress syndrome, originally described the assault to a closed-door meeting of a parliamentary committee on national defence in May.
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