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...British commander of the U.N. troops in Bosnia, Lieut. General Rupert Smith, arrived in Sarajevo to take up his yearlong tour of duty. The Airborne Downed Overruling the recommendations of top military officers, Canadian Defense Minister David Collenette announced the disbanding of the elite 660-member Airborne Regiment. The minister's decision followed a television broadcast of two amateur videos that depicted some of the paratroopers as racist and grossly undisciplined. Although the Chief of Defense Staff, General John de Chastelain, insisted that recent changes in command, personnel and procedures would restore the reputation of the unit, Collenette
...footage on the two videos was wobbly and out of focus, but clear enough to shock Canadians last week as they watched late-night national television news. One of the tapes showed soldiers of the elite Airborne Regiment at Petawawa, Ontario, a base 115 km northwest of Ottawa, participating in vicious and racist hazing rituals in 1992. In one scene a black recruit crawled across the ground, with symbols declaring ``I love the Ku Klux Klan'' daubed in excrement on his back. Another soldier was shown being forced to eat urine-soaked bread. The second tape depicted Airborne members...
...people denigrate our proud Canadian military heritage,'' said Defense Minister David Collenette, who ordered General John de Chastelain, chief of defense staff, ``to investigate this matter and to report on it'' by Jan. 23. Prime Minister Jean Chretien went a step further. ``If we have to dismantle the Airborne Regiment, we'll dismantle it,'' he said while on a trip to Latin America and the Caribbean to drum up orders for Canadian business. ``I have no problem with that...
...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...
...videos show the prevailing culture of the Airborne was one that tolerated, and perhaps encouraged, racism and sadism,'' the Montreal Gazette said in an editorial last week. The daily urged the government to investigate the unit. ``The elite paratroop regiment looks out of control,'' declared the Toronto Star. ``We need answers,'' said Rubin Friedman, an executive of B'nai Brith in Ottawa. ``The issue goes beyond individual acts of racism and brutality and shows systematic dehumanization...