Operation Deliverance was a Canadian Forces

Canadian Forces

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 peace keeping military operation

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 in Somalia

Somalia

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 and formed part of the United Nations

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 peacekeeping deployment to that country. The mission began on December the 3rd, 1992 and involved about 1,400 Canadian troops, a helicopter

Helicopter

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 unit and the supply ship HMCS Preserver

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.

By its end in the May of 1993, it turned into a political disaster

Somalia Affair

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...

 for the Canadian Forces and was also marked by a few, low key, protest marches in both Somalia

Somalia

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, Kenya

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 and Ohio

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. This, among other things, caused the disbandment of the Canadian Airborne Regiment in1995 and numerous subsequent dismissals and resignations along the chain of command

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 up to, but not including, the Minister of Defence

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. Regardless of this, Canada

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's mission objectives were largely completed including the freeing of a captured Canadian journalist

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 and the defeat of the Somali

Somalia

Somalia , officially the Somali Republic and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic under Socialist rule, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. Since the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991 there has been no central government control over most of the country's territory...

 war lord Mohamed 'Tiger' I. Barre.

See also

• Somalia Affair
  Somalia Affair
  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...
  
  
• Canadian Airborne Regiment
• Somali Civil War
  Somali Civil War
  The Somali Civil War is an ongoing civil war taking place in Somalia. The conflict, which began in 1991, has caused destabilisation throughout the country, with the current phase of the conflict seeing the Somali government losing substantial control of the state to rebel forces...
  
  
• 2010 Ayn clashes
  2010 Ayn clashes
  The 2010 Ayn clashes saw Ethiopian and Somaliland forces engage Dulbahante clan militia in Puntland's Ayn region in a bid to reconquer the region ahead of the Somaliland presidential election, 2010...
  
  

Sources

• http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/newsroom/view_news_e.asp?id=974
• http://archives.cbc.ca/war_conflict/peacekeeping/topics/723/