Kyle Brown (Canadian soldier)

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Private Kyle Brown is a former Canadian soldier convicted of manslaughter and torture in respect of the March 1993 death in custody of Somali teenager Shidane Arone. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

The Canadian supply depot in Somalia was suspected to be a target for thieves. Arone was found hiding in an abandoned American base across from the Canadian base. He was cruelly detained and tortured which ultimately led to his brutal murder by multiple Canadian Forces members. Master Corporal Clayton Matchee and Kyle Brown took lead roles in Arone's torture and murder. The teenager's screams were reported to have been heard throughout the camp. Matchee was taken into custody, tried to hang himself, but only succeeded in causing himself irreversible brain damage. Because of this he was deemed unfit to stand trial. Brown, who played a secondary role, was convicted of manslaughter, and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, along with Dismissal with Disgrace from the Canadian Forces. He was released on parole after serving one-third of his five-year sentence. [6]

Brown later published a book called Scapegoat [7] in which he presented a case wherein he had been made the scapegoat for the incident and the officers who had not intervened were not brought to justice.

An official inquiry in 1997 considered whether mefloquine, an anti-malarial drug that troops were taking, known to trigger psychotic symptoms in sensitive individuals, played a role in Arone's abuse, [8] though the results were inconclusive.

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References

  1. ↑ "The Somalia Affair". CBC . Retrieved 2007-11-23.
  2. ↑ "The sentencing of Private Kyle Brown". CBC. March 18, 1994. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
  3. ↑ "Dismissal with disgrace". CBC. March 20, 1994. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
  4. ↑ "Report of the Somalia Commission of Inquiry". Department of National Defence. July 2, 1997. Archived from the original on October 2, 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
  5. ↑ Clyde H. Farnsworth (February 11, 1996). "The Killing Of a Somali Jars Canada". The New York Times . Retrieved 2007-11-23.
  6. ↑ "Canadian Soldier Jailed In Somali's Death Is Freed". New York Times . November 17, 1995. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
  7. ↑ Worthington, Peter (1997). Scapegoat: How the Army Betrayed Kyle Brown . Seal Books. ISBN   978-0770427559
  8. ↑ "The mefloquine issue". Department of National Defence. 1997. Archived from the original on 2007-02-12. Retrieved 2007-11-23.


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