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Infuriated protesters carrying the bodies of five Afghans killed in a U.S.-led raid - including the shrouded corpses of a woman and teenage girl - blocked a highway in eastern Afghanistan with rocks and felled trees, denouncing their government and demanding an explanation.

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The secretary general of Amnesty International Canada says the federal government has turned a blind eye to torture by giving up control of prisoners captured in Afghanistan.

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Savage beatings, electrocution, whipping and extreme cold: Detainees detail a litany of abuses by Afghan authorities.

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"Handcuffed and blind-folded, I was told to keep my mouth shut"

I saw armed men in military uniforms running towards us. There were more than 30 men, who spoke English in American accents and Pashto [a language spoken in Afghanistan]. I think two of them were Americans and the rest were Afghans.

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From Information Clearing House

The question always in mind is why things are getting worse with every passing year in Afghanistan? Taliban rule was over in 2001 and one would have thought that with the passage of time the situation would become normal. On the ground the opposite is true and instead of getting better the situation is deteriorating. But why?

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After it became clear last year that several marines had killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, following an attack on their convoy of Humvees, the Marine Corps, which had initially played down the massacre, began an offensive of a different kind.

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Attorney General Abdul Jabar Sabit has said the soldiers of the foreign military accused of crimes will not be prosecuted in Afghanistan.

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The death last Sunday of six Canadian soldiers in southern Afghanistan reminds us of Santayana's famous maxim that those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it.

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The grave was found by local farmers in a desert just outside Faizabad, the capital town of the remote Badakhshan province, deputy governor Shams-ul Rahman Shams said.

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Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death

In Afghanistan, filmmaker Jamie Doran has uncovered evidence of a massacre: Taliban prisoners of war suffocated in containers, shot in the desert under the watch of American troops.

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