"The patrol base has been repeatedly caught in deadly crossfire since it was built as an observer post in 1972.


"What I can tell you is this," Hess-von Kruedener wrote. "We have on a daily basis had numerous occasions where our position has come under direct or indirect fire from both artillery and aerial bombing."

"The closest artillery has landed within two metres of our position and the closest 1,000-pound (450-kilogram) aerial bomb has landed 100 metres from our patrol base."

"This has not been deliberate targeting," he added. "But has rather been due to tactical necessity."

Hess-von Kruedener had been an infantry officer with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry for 20 years.

He served in Cyprus, the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire, and twice in Bosnia before joining the UN Truce and Supervision Organization last October. "


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