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and was the source of a controversy about the lack of public transparency by the Canadian Forces. [1] Gunther was the third Canadian fatality in the Yugoslavia peacekeeping mission, [2] and also the only Canadian soldier killed by hostile fire for the decade between 1993 and 2004 when Corporal Jamie Murphy was killed in Afghanistan in 2004. [3]
The death of nine Canadian Armed Forces personnel when their Buffalo 461 was shot down over Syria on August 9, 1974, remains the largest single death toll in Canadian peacekeeping history. [ 52 ] [ 53 ] The United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti saw the death of two Canadian RCMP peacekeepers as a result of the 2010 earthquake .
The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum has undertaken a project to rebuild an ex-Sudanese Air Force DHC-5D to represent Buffalo 461 as a tribute to those lost on Buffalo 461 and all Canadian peacekeepers. [4] In 1993 British Columbia established August 9 as Peacekeepers' Day and this was recognized nationally in 2008 by the Canadian government ...
Aftermath of IDF airstrike on UN patrol base Khiam, Lebanon, 2006 The entrance to the UN base where four UN peacekeepers were killed during the 2006 Lebanon conflict. During the 2006 July War, a number of international incidents occurred in Lebanon, largely involving United Nations personnel who have come under a number of attacks by Israeli ...
National Peacekeepers' Day (French: Journée Nationale des Casques Bleus) is an official remembrance day for Canadian veterans of military peacekeeping activities. [1] It is officially marked on 9 August of each year [ 2 ] and alternately may be observed on the closest Sunday.
Alongside many domestic obligations and a few ongoing peacekeeping missions, the Canadian Armed Forces are currently deployed in multiple foreign military operation. [13] Below is a list of all currently active and past Canadian Armed Forces operations both within Canada's borders and internationally.
Vivian Silver (Hebrew: ויויאן סילבר; February 2, 1949 – October 7, 2023) was a Canadian-Israeli peace activist and women's rights activist. [1] She was murdered in the Be'eri massacre , a part of the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel .
Master Corporal Mark Robert Isfeld (August 14, 1962 – June 21, 1994) was a Canadian soldier and United Nations peacekeeper who served in UNIKOM and UNPROFOR as a combat engineer. He was killed by a landmine while on tour in Croatia. He is best known for handing out small knitted dolls, known as "Izzy dolls", to children while on duty.