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Old May 13th 04, 03:41 PM
Nicholas Fitzpatrick
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Peter Stickney wrote:

Canada isn't part of North America?


Funny that you should bring that up - IIRC, the Canadian Parachute
Regiment was disbanded after reports of its mistreatement of prisoners
in Bosnia while it was assigned to peacekeeping duties there.


It was Somalia. There was a full-scale inquiry. There was no
indication that it was more than a few rogue soldiers (which,
unfortunately, is going to happen in these kind of situations ...
or at least it always seems to happen). Althought there did seem
to be some systemic problems in the regiment, that created an
atmosphere where these things did happen; hence the disbanding.

Also, the inquiry raised questions (but never completely answered)
the question that the Malaria drug that was in use at the time,
may have been impacting the judgement of the soldiers. The
drug does have psychotic side-effects. See
http://www.commando.org/somalia/mefloquine.html

Nick