It seems unbelievable that people are still being attacked for their sexual orientation and even more so when the attackers were Canadian soldiers in Amsterdam. Amsterdam is not a third world city, and Canada is not a third world country.
The only consolation is that the two men were jailed, but I'm sure the person who was attacked would have preferred that it had never happened in the first place.
From the World section of the Wednesday, October 17, 2007, Toronto Star, page AA4:
Netherlands
CANADIAN SOLDIERS GUILTY IN ATTACK ON GAY MAN
A Dutch court yesterday jailed two Canadian soldiers due to be posted to Afghanistan for an assault on a gay man in Amsterdam.
Eric Wright was sentenced to five months in jail and ordered to pay 6,000 euros ($8,300) in damages and Ryan Dowie was given 45 days in jail. The two men, both aged 22 at the time of the incident, were arrested following a brawl in May in which a 28-year-old man was hospitalized with serious injuries.
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