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Russian war crimes so numerous  investigators had to limit probe’s scope

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

War crimes investigators in Ukraine say violations of international laws and conventions by invading Russian soldiers are so grievous and widespread that they have had to limit their focus to only the worst cases.

Investigators from the non-governmental organization Truth Hounds have been documenting war crimes in the country since 2014, when Moscow annexed the Crimean Peninsula and non-uniformed Russian troops began fighting alongside Russian-speaking separatists in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.

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Indigenous pilots lost in the skies of WWI

STORY BY SHARON ADAMS

Canada lost two Indigenous First World War airmen in early April 1918.

Lieutenant James David Moses, 26, was reported missing on April 1 with his pilot, South African Second Lieutenant Douglas Price Trollip, after their plane was shot down near Grévillers, France.

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Their own medicine: Ill-equipped Russians betrayed by old ally

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

Back in early March, with a cold snap coming and the Russian advance stalled outside the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, military observers warned Vladimir Putin’s invading army could be facing a different sort of trouble.

A column of tanks and heavy weaponry was lined up for 65 kilometres. It was low on food and fuel and already facing sub-zero temperatures after dark.

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Canada and the Battle of Hart’s River

STORY BY SHARON ADAMS

The South African War, popularly known as the Second Boer War, ushered in the 20th century. It was Britain’s second kick at the can—they’d lost the First Boer War in the 1880s.

The British ostensibly wanted to protect the trade route to India by controlling territory around the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa; controlling the region’s gold and diamond resources wouldn’t hurt, either.

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