Suicide soldier exposé - Copenhagen

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The Defence Ministry has admitted it was aware of a suicidal soldier’s mental instability prior to sending him on international military assignments

The Defence Ministry acknowledged last week that an army reserve officer who killed himself and his son after serving in Iraq was not mentally fit for deployment.

A documentary programme aired by TV2 earlier in the week accused the military of sending soldiers into combat zones knowing they suffered from mental illnesses. In 2005 soldier Bjørn Schaap killed himself and his son when he blew up the family’s home with one kilo of plastic explosives on the boy’s fifth birthday.

Colonel Jens Christian Lund of the Defence Command admitted in a written report that Schaap should never have been deployed. Lund’s statement indicated that the military was aware that Schaap had threatened to commit suicide before and that he had been admitted to the military’s psychiatric unit.

There is likely a great deal more we're not hearing about the mental and emotional difficulties created from Bush's unnecessary war.