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Canada promotes criticized officer
OTTAWA, July 25 (UPI) — A Canadian military officer criticized for his role as a U.N. peacekeeper in a 1990s Somalia mission has been promoted to general.
Col. Serge Labbe was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general July 2 without public notice, the Canwest News Service reported. Labbe served as one of the senior officers in the 1992-1993 mission to Somalia, during which Canadian paratroopers tortured a 16-year-old man to death. Inquiries also showed two Somalis were shot in the back after they entered a Canadian camp
Labbe was never charged with any of the incidents, although a 1997 inquiry said he exercised “poor and inappropriate leadership,” the Ottawa Citizen said.
Labbe was denied a promotion to brigadier-general twice before, the newspaper said.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/07/25/Canada_promotes_criticized_officer/UPI-79851217010700/
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