WORLD IN BRIEF : CANADA : Officer Convicted in Somali Teen’s Death
A Canadian officer faces up to three years in prison for the death of a Somali teen-ager during the U.N. famine relief mission, military officials said in Ottawa. Maj. Anthony Seward, 40, is the highest-ranking soldier convicted on a charge of negligence of duty in the death of Shldane Abukar Arone on March 16, 1993. Seward’s superior, Lt. Col. Joseph Carol Mathieu, is also standing trial and entered a not-guilty plea in connection with Arone’s death. The 16-year-old Arone was found beaten to death after allegedly being caught breaking into the Canadian compound at Belet Uen in Somalia.
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