Word: canadas
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...Toronto, Canada...
...revelations about trouble in the Airborne reopened an earlier wound. In 1994 Canada was shocked by the courts martial of nine members of the unit for torturing and killing a 16-year-old Somali boy who had trespassed on their compound in Belet Huen while he was looking for food. One of the troopers was sentenced to five years in prison; the other eight were either acquitted or are appealing lesser charges. During the pretrial investigation, officials discovered that a handful of soldiers in the Airborne, calling themselves the Rebels, had adopted the Confederate flag as their banner and openly...
...Airborne is considered one of Canada's best military formations, a crack 660-man unit founded in 1968 whose members have taken part in many overseas peacekeeping assignments for the U.N. A contingent from the regiment is currently serving in Rwanda. All 660 Airborne soldiers are scheduled to ship out in April to join a U.N. operation in Croatia, but that deployment may now be in jeopardy...
Military officials insisted that the problem was an old one and that new procedures for enforcing discipline have changed the situation. One of Canada's best-known soldiers, retired Major General Lewis Mackenzie, who served as chief of U.N. peacekeeping forces in the former Yugoslavia in 1992, claimed that the Airborne had been reformed. ``The hazing video,'' he maintained, ``is a historical document.'' But Scott Taylor, publisher of Esprit de Corps, the monthly magazine that uncovered the Somalia videotape, is not so sure. ``The level of depravity can't even be described,'' he says. ``This was not just...
...must be spilled before whoever is left standing at the end is granted peace and wisdom. That most of the dying results from a bootlegging operation Tristan starts up during Prohibition tends to short-circuit whatever impulses toward terror and pity we might still have. Running hooch in from Canada is not an occupation we usually associate with profound drama, especially when it is centered on a figure who is literally a deadly bore...