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Thursday, November 7, 2013 X Volume 26 No. 89 www.kamloopsthisweek.com X 30 cents at Newsstands
MORE REMEMBRANCE DAY INSIDE Turn to Page B1 to find out all about Thomas Bowen Jones who, earlier this year, became the only Kamloops veteran to be awarded the Arctic Star — a British military honour.
Scott Casey was one of 750 Canadian UN peacekeepers in Sarajevo in 1992 More than 20 years later, his story is finally being told By Tim Petruk STAFF REPORTER
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t did not take long for Scott Casey to realize Sarajevo was, as he put it, “a shitshow.” “My first day there I watched a pregnant woman get shot in the stomach,” he told KTW. “The place was literally a bloody mess. They were butchering their own citizens by the thousands.” It was the early stages of the Bosnian War — a battle that would continue for four years and eventually see nearly 100,000 people killed. Today, Casey lives in Westsyde with his family. In 1992, he was a Canadian soldier stationed in Germany. When the call for UN peacekeepers came, his November Company shipped out. “We were there within hours, as opposed to trying to get them out of Canada,” he said. “There was no peace there
to keep. Everybody was shooting at everybody and everybody was shooting at us. “We were just targets in big, white vehicles.” The rule for UN peacekeepers, Casey said, is that they can only fire their weapons if they are being fired upon. “It’s called chapter-six peacekeeping,” he said. “But, because of the severity of the fire we were under, we created chapter six-and-ahalf.” Casey said the peacekeepers were not disobeying orders or breaking any laws — just adapting to their situation. X See HISTORY A10
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