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Records of Afghan detainee transfer orders showing whether Canadian military commanders took the risk of torture into account are buried in sea shipping containers and "may take years" to locate, the Military Police Complaints Commission was told Tuesday. The revelation by Maj. Denis Gagnon emerged when he was closely questioned by lawyer Paul Champ, who said the commission is on the verge of deciding whether it has to suspend public hearings, partly because of missing and delayed documents from the Defence Department. Gagnon said the documents are "all thrown together in a storage bin, a sea container" and an assessment of how long it would take to catalogue documents and identify the records requested by the commission may take years. The hearings are into a complaint by Amnesty International and the B.C. Civil Liberties Association that Canadian military commanders ordered the transfer of detainees to Afghan custody despite a high risk of torture and that military police failed to investigate. Such transfers are illegal under international law.

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