WHILE THE CANADIAN TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN ARE SUPPOSED TO HELP THE COUNTRY AND ITS CIVILIANS AND ALSO COMBAT AGAINST THE TALIBAN, THEY ARE ALSO BREAKING MANY INTERNATIONAL LAWS. FOR EXAMPLE, THE COMMON ARTICLE 3 OF THE GENEVA CONVENTION CONCERNING THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR. ACCORDING TO THIS CONVENTION NO NATION IS ALLOWED TO TRANSFER A PRISONER TO A OTHER NATION IF IT SUPSPEECTS HE WILL BE TORTURED.
THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS HAVE BEEN PUT IN PLACE TO PROTECT THE CIVILIANS AND SOLDIERS THAT ARE NOT OR NO LONGER TAKING PART OF THE WAR (WOUNDED OR SICK SOLDIERS, PRISONERS OF WAR, CIVILIANS, RELIGIOUS AND MEDICAL PERSONNEL, ETC.).
THE CANADIAN TROOPS ARE BREAKING THIS LAW BY HANDING THEIR PRISONERS TO US CUSTODY WHERE THEY WILL BE TORTURES. THE PRISONERS THE CANADIAN TROOPS HAND TO THE US END UP IN THE GUANTANAMO BAY PRISON AND AS YOU KNOW, IN THAT PRISON THE CAPTIVE DO NOT GET A VERY HUMAN LIKE TREATMENT. BY HANDING THERE PRISONERS TO THE US THE CANADIAN TROOPS AREN'T ONLY BREAKING THE GENEVA CONVENTION BUT THEY ARE ALSO NOT RESPECTING THE AGREEMENT THEY SIGNED WITH AFGHANISTAN. THIS AGREEMENT SAID THAT BOTH PARTIES AGRRED TO RESPECT THE CONVENTION TO ENSURE THAT ALL DETAINEE'S WERE GOING TO BE WELL TREATED. THE CANADIAN ARMY ALWAYS SAID, ALL THEY WANTED TO DO IS HELP AFGHANISTAN AND IT'S CIVILANS BUT THEY ARE JUST MAKING THE PROBLEM WORST.
ORIGINAL GENEVA CONVENTION
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