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Afghan police guard a gaol in Kabul in 2004. Canadian diplomat Eillen Olexiuk says she raised the possibility that detainees transfered from Canadian to Afghan custody were at endanger of rack in 2005. (Musadeq Sadeq/Associated Press)

A Canadian diplomat with extensive experience in Afghanistan says she raised the potentiality that detainees transferred from Canadian to Afghan duress were at risk of rack back in 2005, but her concerns were ignored.

In each exclusive parley with CBC News, Eillen Olexiuk, who arrived in Afghanistan in 2002 and was second in command at the Canadian Embassy in Kabul, declared she told the Liberal government in power at the time that the transfer agreement didn’cheek by jowl fare plenty to protect detainees.

Canadian officials at the time weren’t monitoring detainees after the transfer, and that left detainees vulnerable to distress formerly they were in Afghan hands, before-mentioned Olexiuk, who met with torture victims during her three years in Afghanistan.

She related she documented her concerns in man’s rights reports prepared for the Department of Foreign Affairs, stressing that Canadians should have been visiting the detainees regularly rear transfers and making records of detainees who were quiet being held and those who had been released.

But Olexiuk said her advice was ignored by Paul Martin’s government.

“I don’t venture anybody really cared, quite frankly,” she related.

It was only in 2007 that allegations of torture arose in the media, through reports of transferred detainees inmost nature beaten, whipped, starved, frozen, choked and shocked.

After the allegations arose, Stephen Harper’session newly elected Conservative government signed a transfer agreement through Afghanistan in May 2007, allowing Canadian officials to visit prisons and track detainees who had been transferred there.

Allegations of torture have continued, despite that agreement.

Richard Colvin, a senior diplomat through Canada’s Afghan mission, testified before a House of Commons committee in November 2009 that detainees continue to be tortured. His testimony renewed argue in Ottawa athwart the fate of detainees.

With files from James Cudmore