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...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...
...oral sex. The black recruit seen crawling on all fours is depicted in another segment tied to a tree while a substance that looks like dirt is being dumped on his head. The tape from Somalia shows a soldier standing in front of a police station at Belet Huen and responding with a grin to questions about the peacekeepers' role in helping starving Somali children. ``There's no one starving here, O.K.?'' the trooper replies. ``This is where 150 people hang out and eat wheat. They never work. They're slobs. And they stink.'' Another soldier calls the U.N. peacekeeping...
...Somalian hinterland, U.S. cargo planes continued an airlift that has delivered more than 3,000 tons of food to remote villages since Aug. 28. But last week flights to one town, Belet Huen, were suspended after a plane was hit by a bullet...
...found sitting around a table eating a silent dinner of silvery fish, cabbage and egg. Behind them is a wall of ivory tusks in burlap sacks that were destined for Taiwan until that country declared a ban in August. "There is nothing to give them to do," says Eddie Huen, one of five brothers who run the business started by their father. "They are just sitting, waiting for the future." The carvers are family to each other and have little life outside the factory. They live in the showroom, sleeping there on boards...
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