Well hidden atrocities commited against us

[Friko_Prizm]

Something you would not have seen in the media: Two Belgian #UN ‘peacekeepers’ cheerfully roast a #Somali boy over a fire, during a ‘humanitarian mission’ in Somalia in 1993

Kurt Coelus and Claude Baert were part of the Unified Task Force (UNITAF), which was a United States-led, United Nations-sanctioned multinational force and operated in Somalia between 5 December 1992 to 4 May 1993, in charge of carrying out United Nations Security Council Resolution 794: “to create a protected environment for conducting humanitarian operations in the southern half of Somalia.”

#Belgium military court sentenced two paratroopers to A month in jail and a fine of 200 pounds.

And, apparently, this is not just an isolated incident. Another Belgian soldier stands accused of forcing a young Somali to eat pork, drink salt water and then eat his own vomit. Another sergeant is suspected of having murdered a Somali whom he was photographed urinating upon. Another child, accused of stealing food from the paratroopers’ base, died after being locked in a storage container for 48 hours.

#CrimesAgainstHumanity

 

[Bahal]

There is something very very wrong with that demonic non country

 

[Rooble]

BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNN) -- Belgian military officials Thursday promised a thorough review of training exercises, following the publication of photos of alleged atrocities by elite paratroopers during the 1993 U.N. Somalia peace mission.

Defense Minister Jean-Pol Poncelet said he was considering disbanding the elite Belgian paratrooper unit at the center of the scandal. The newest photos, published Wednesday in the daily newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws, include one of a Belgian paratrooper urinating on the face of a dead Somali.

Photos released earlier show two paratroopers holding another Somali over an open fire, allegedly "roasting" him until he was severely burned. Two paratroopers were arrested last week and charged with assault and battery in the incident.

Paratroopers acquitted 2 years ago

Members of Belgium's elite paratrooper unit served in the United Nation's "Operation Restore Hope" mission in Somalia in 1993. Two years ago, 15 paratroopers were put on trial for other abuses during the U.N. mission, including torture, killings and the mock-execution of children. Most were acquitted.

But the photographs, which came to light in the last two weeks after two former paratroopers came forward anonymously, bolster accusations that Belgian soldiers tortured and killed civilians during the mission.

The Belgian military promised that anyone found guilty of human rights abuses will be punished.

"First and for all, the Belgian army authorities never tolerate violations of humanitarian rights, martial law or penal laws. Those who are violating these rules are sent to military courts," said Col. Gilbert Hertoghe of Belgium.

Military auditor Gen. Jean-Yves Minne says many of the paratroopers have been located, including those who held a Somali child over a fire. "The persons which committed these crimes have also been interrogated by magistrates and one of them is placed under arrest. The second one is released pending trial," he said.

Belgium to follow Canada's lead?
Minne says the most serious action he's investigating involved an alleged Somali thief who was reportedly forced into a container and left in the hot sun until he died.

Canada has wrestled with similar cases of torture and killings stemming from the U.N. mission, and in the end, disbanded its elite airborne regiment, whose soldiers committed the worst abuses.

"Shouldn't we go as far as the Canadians and just disband the battalion?" Poncelet said in an interview with the Brussels daily De Morgen.

 

[Mohamud]

Was legit just talking about Belgium

 

[Rooble]

 

[Mohamud]

Is this brand new information?

 

[merka]

The Somalia Affair was a 1993 military scandal later dubbed "Canada's national shame". It peaked with the brutal beating death of a Somali teenager at the hands of two Canadian soldiers participating in humanitarian efforts in Somalia. The crime, documented by grisly photos, shocked the Canadian public and brought to light internal problems in the Canadian Airborne Regiment. Military leadership came into sharp rebuke after a CBC reporter received altered documents, leading to allegations of a cover up.

Eventually a public inquiry was called. Despite being controversially cut short by the government, the Somalia Inquiry cited problems in the leadership of the Canadian Forces. The affair led to the disbanding of Canada's elite Canadian Airborne Regiment, greatly damaged the morale of the Canadian Forces, and marring the domestic and international reputation of Canadian soldiers. It also led to the immediate reduction of Canadian military spending by nearly 25% from the time of the killing to the inquiry.

It has been compared to "a Canadian version of...the Pentagon Papers", or My Lai, but critics noted that while My Lai had occurred in a hostile environment where American soldiers were being killed by an invisible enemy every day, the Canadian troops in Somalia had not suffered any casualties or extreme stress, and the only provocation that Canadians faced was petty theft from their base.

December 15, 1992
The Canadian Airborne Regiment arrives in Somalia.

March 4, 1993
Two Somalis infiltrating a Canadian base camp are shot by sentries. One dies.

March 16, 1993
Somali Shidane Arone, 16, is beaten and tortured to death by Canadian soldiers. Two days later, Master Cpl. Clayton Matchee, one of those arrested in Arone's death, is found hanging in his cell in Somalia. Matchee suffers brain damage and is declared unfit to stand trial.

May 19, 1993
The first charges are laid against Airborne soldiers related to Arone's death. Eight soldiers eventually face court martial, four of whom are convicted.

March 16, 1994
In the most serious conviction to date, Pte. Elvin Kyle Brown is sentenced to five years in jail for manslaughter and torture in Arone's death.

January 23, 1995
Defence Minister David Collenette announces he is disbanding the Airborne regiment after the broadcast of several videotapes showing soldiers making racist comments and taking part in brutal hazing rituals.

March 21, 1995
Collenette appoints a civilian inquiry into the Somalia mission.

March 27, 1996
Federal Information Commissioner John Grace says senior military officers deliberately altered documents related to the Somalia affair before releasing them to a CBC radio reporter.

April 1, 1996
The Somalia inquiry reveals that computer logs and documents supplied by the defence department had been tampered with to delete crucial information about what happened in Somalia.

 

[waraabe]

When you keep inviting foreigners to your country this is what is going to happen

 

[Mohamud]

This piece of shit fucker only got 5 years and served a third of it

 

[Friko_Prizm]

There is something very very wrong with that demonic non country

Not only them even the self entitled Canadian bastards too.
Canadian Airborne Regiment (CAR) Private Kyle Brown took this photo of Master Corporal Clayton Matchee as he holds a gun to the head of 16-year-old Shidane Abukar Arone in a bunker on March 16, 1993 inside the CAR base in Belet Huen, Somalia. Arone later died from his injuries. Photo courtesy of the book Scapegoat

There is something very very wrong with that demonic non country

 

[Mohamud]

They fucking raped the kid with a broomstick

 

[madamelioness]

Good thread but can we please use spoilers?

Those images are hard to watch.

 

[Mohamud]

Later, Matchee came by to borrow a cigarette from MacDonald and mentioned that "now the Black man would fear the Indian as he did the white man"

My blood is boiling

 

[Canuck]

 

[dhegdheer]

What the f*ck... Some of these reports have me seething, I can't believe they just got away with it

 

[Mohamud]

I would more furious if my country wasn't perpetually weak against monsters for practically its entire history

You can aid and embed a serial killing rapist and get ZERO jail time in this country

Fucking hell.

 

[dhegdheer]

Honestly many of these humanitarian efforts/missions needs to be scrutinized. These stories have been repeated so many times, not only Somalia, but so many other countries

Many are effectively left to their own devices so the volunteer can do whatever they want. It's disgusting

 

[dhegdheer]

f*ck the UN too Useless fucking organisation

Haiti, and many others, should sue for their incompetence

 

[Freebandz]

Probably usc and there friend's keep roasting them

 

[Bahal]

Hey, my qabiil is great though.