From the “clean snows of Petawawa”: the violence of the Canadian peacekeepers in Somalia.
The writer discusses how the violence inflicted on Somalis by Canadian soldiers sent to Somalia as peacekeepers in late 1992 disappeared from Canadian national and legal consciousness. The disappearance of the atrocities into the national mythology relied on the construction of Somalia as a place t...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Anthropology Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 127 - 164 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
February 2000
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