http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,118627,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3675215.stm
I would put our treatment of POW's up against any other World Power. In WWII, the Germans were demanding to surrender to the US because when you became a Russian POW you rarely lived through the experience. The Japanese killed you, bayoneted you to save bullets or buried you alive if they didn't have time to kill you outright. Not to mention the Bataan Death March.
In Vietnam the VC tortured their prisoners big time.
Canada Disbands Regiment over Racism
Friday 27 January 1995
On Monday, January 24, 1995, Canada's Defence Minister David Collenette ordered the disbandment of the elite Canadian Airborne Regiment stationed in Petawawa, near Ottawa, the Canadian capital.
The decision to disband the regiment was made after Canadians were shown video-recordings on television of Canadian peacekeeping troops in Somalia talking about killing Blacks.
One video includes a soldier in Somalia saying, "We ain't killed enough niggers yet", while another soldier was heard saying that the Africans they've supposedly come to help are lazy, don't like to work and stink.
Earlier, one Private Kyle Brown was convicted in the torture-death of a Somali teenager in the Airborne's camp in Somalia.
A second video, which was more than what Canadians could take, showed a Black soldier being walked like a dog with "I love the Ku Klux Klan" painted with excrement on his back. This was part of a hazing ritual where soldiers were seen vomiting and eating feces.
Interestingly enough, a spokesperson of the Reform Party, an ultra-right wing federal party who has made immigrant-bashing and scapegoating a sport in Canada, said although the videos were vulgar, they were not racist. "I did not see what I consider to be racist overtones", said Mr. Jack Frazer, MP for British Columbia. He said the word "nigger" to describe a Black person appears to be an acceptable form of speech among Black Americans. "From the states, blacks refer to themselves as, 'Hey nigger, how's it going?'"
A letter published in the January 24 edition of the Toronto "Globe and Mail" put it more bluntly: "And so another Canadian myth hits the dust. What was once a source of pride has proved to be a national disgrace. Thanks to the broadcast of the shocking footage of the sadistic, racist and dehumanizing hazing rituals of the Canadian Airborne Regiment, Canadians have an appalingly sordid pictire of home-grown brutalization practices in the military. With the invention of such abhorrent antics for fellow commandos, is it any wonder Somalis were victimized?"