Last March the Harper government characterized Canada's participation in hostilities in Libya as a moral imperative. Hopefully they'll look upon today's request by Amnesty International in the same way.
The Canadian leader of Amnesty International is calling on the Harper government to use its influence with Libya's new leadership to put an end to the torture of prisoners that the organization says has been taking place.
That article doesn't give us much in the way of detail about it but it seems the people we helped to put in charge in Libya have been behaving badly. This BBC article reports that over 8,000 people are being held in secret detention centres "amid reports of torture" and includes this:
The humanitarian medical organisation [Medecins Sans Frontieres] said it had stopped work in detention centres in the north-western city of Misrata because some patients were being brought in for care between interrogation sessions.
That story's descriptions of abuse mainly involve the independent militias but there are other reports that implicate Libya's regular army as well as the new government's security agency in the torture of detainees.
If Canadian involvement in Libya was all about protecting civilians then perhaps John Baird could drop by there again and apply some pressure to curb these abuses. It seems like the least we could do since we share responsibility for them.
Overall, it would seem that so far the new boss is in fact worse than the old boss we helped get rid of. And the civil war / insurgency hasn't even started yet.
Anyone who believed the lies that we killed Libyans to 'save ' them is insane. We killed Libyans to get control of their bank and their oil and to have another country where the USI could attack from. We will now see the truth. Once NATO murdered Gadhaffi their concern for 'humanitarian aid' in Libya was over. Harper even went so far as to state that NATO only killed 30 people when anyone who kept up with the news from honest reporters know that there were thousands killed by NATO bombing. You can't bomb hospitals and 'only kill 30 people'.
All Canadians should hang their head in shame.