Claim: Operation Deliverance, active from December 1992 – May 1993 in Somalia (a sovereign country in the easternmost projection of the African continent), resulted to Canadian forces achieving military objectives, but suffering severe political repercussions.
Evidence: Operation Deliverance was a Canadian military operation in Somalia that formed part of the United Nations peace-making deployment to that country during the early part of the Somali Civil War. December 1992 – May 1993 Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia is a sovereign country in the Horn of Africa. The Horn of Africa (HoA) (Oromo: Gaafa Afrikaa, Amharic: የአፍሪካ ቀንድ, romanized: yäafrika qänd, Somali: Geeska Afrika, Tigrinya: ቀርኒ ኣፍሪቃ, romanized: q'ärnī afīrīqa, Arabic: القرن الأفريقي‎, romanized: al-qarn al-'afrīqī) is a peninsula and the easternmost projection of the African continent. The Horn of Africa consists of the countries of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia. While Canada's mission objectives were largely completed, including the freeing of a captured Canadian journalist and the defeat of the Somali warlord Mohamed 'Tiger' I. Barre, Operation Deliverance turned into a political disaster for the Canadian Forces after several Somali civilians were brutally killed or injured in what became known as the Somalia Affair.