May, 23, 2012

Fallen Peacekeeper Gets Award, While His Widow Still Waits for Answers

Paeta Hess-von Kruedener has been awarded a posthumous medal for his peacekeeping duties, but his widow is still waiting to hear from the military on how and why her husband was killed.

By Lee Berthiaume

Published August 8, 2007

The widow of a Canadian peacekeeper killed by an Israeli bomb during last summer's war in Lebanon has again demanded answers into her husband's death amidst growing concern the truth will never come out.

"We have to have answers to the questions that we have, regardless," Cynthia Hess-von Kruedener said in an interview on Monday. "And I'm very fearful that that is not going to happen, because of the...

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