[news] Canadian Soldier Describes Why He Abandoned Military Over Afghan Mission

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ZNet | by Alexander Panetta; September 26, 2006 

QUEBEC (CP) - Francisco Juarez bristles at being labelled Canada's first Afghanistan war resister. But the 35-year-old former army reserve member is proud to have turned his back on the military because he doesn't believe in the Afghan mission. 

During a training session earlier this year at Gagetown, N.B., he refused to walk onto an obstacle course and told his commanding officer: I no longer wish to participate.

  


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