page_title: 3rd Parachute Battalion (Belgium)
section_title: Somalia
hierarchical_section_title: 3rd Parachute Battalion (Belgium) / Peacekeeping / Somalia
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: The Belgian soldiers are part of the United Nations Forces in Somalia in support of OPERATION CONTINUE HOPE
context_page_description: The 3rd Parachute Battalion is a military formation of the Belgian Armed Forces and part of the Special Operations Regiment. It carries on the regimental traditions of the Belgian Korean War volunteers.
context_section_description: In December 1992, 1st Parachute Battalion deployed to Somalia as part of US-led United Nations mission Operation Restore Hope. Their role involved protecting UN aid distribution, as well as searching out militants. The 3rd Parachute Battalion was later also deployed to the country.
  In 1993, two soldiers of the 3rd Parachute Battalion were arrested, after a photo apparently showing two soldiers holding a Somali boy above a fire appeared in Belgian newspapers. Two soldiers were put on trial in Belgium, but both were acquitted by a military tribunal through lack of evidence.
caption: Belgian Paracommando's UNOSOM soldiers in Somalia,1993
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