Nine Danish soldiers have tried to take their own lives in the last 12 months since returning home from Afghanistan.
The figures were revealed in a currently unpublished report by the enlisted men’s union HKKF. The study shows that the alarming trend has so far been seen exclusively with young veterans in their twenties.
“This is a surprisingly high number. The attempts have come within a short period of time and it is very worrying that returning soldiers feel so bad, given that the military has a system to help them,” said HKKF consultant Yvonne Tonnesen. As an HKKF Lifeline operator, Tonnesen regularly speaks to traumatised soldiers recently returned from war.
Of the nine attempted suicides reported in the study, four were deliberate car crashes, two were failed overdoses of prescription drugs, and two were failed hangings. Another man walked fully-clothed into freezing cold water, only changing his mind on the brink of losing consciousness. The one common thread in all cases was that the soldiers kept their actions hidden from their families.
“The soldiers say that they have just had enough of the daily battle simply to get out of bed. Some say they won’t try suicide again. Others say ‘next time I’ll succeed’,” said Tonnesen, adding that few soldiers come to terms with reality immediately after returning from war zones.
The Danish military offers both group therapy and individual counselling to help the returning soldiers’ transition back into normal life, reports the Politiken.
All personnel are posted a questionnaire by the military six months after their homecoming to determine if they are suffering from any psychological problems, although as many as 30 percent do not reply. “These are precisely the ones that we need to have contact with,” said Tonnesen.
This problem with suicide among troops has reached epidemic levels here in the United States also.
In Afghanistan, we have the admission of the US Military that instead of burning down poppy fields they are actually guarding them and helping the “Taliban” grow and export it…where it is turned into the flood of heroin being pushed around the world.
If you found out you were working for narco-trafficking bankers and your job was to help ship out heroin to the rest of the world, how would you feel? When you find that you are on the wrong side of history, but also sworn to obey orders, what do you do?
When you realize that it’s the Governments that ship in the drugs and then punish you if you are caught with them, slamming you in prison and using you as cheap labor… how can you stand with that?
The problem is the nature of the mission. IT was only to get the oil pipeline in and control the Opium. Period. Pat Tillman was killed by his own men because he was sending letters back home to his family saying the war was all a farce, that they were guarding poppy fields, etc..and that he was going to be an anti-war protester when he got home.
How do you live with killing your own men for snitching out the drug-boss overlords?
Ask yourself why the brother of the PRESIDENT of Afghanistan is openly admitted to being the LARGEST Opium Dealer in the entire country? We are experiencing terrorism by the elite on us, narco terrorism. Russia BEGGED the US to destroy the fields to stop the flood of Heroin into that country and the US said “no.”..and lied about the reasons. As they always, always do.
In essence, you cannot be a “good person” and live with what troops from all nations are being told to do, told to ignore and who they are told to kill and for what reasons. They simply cannot live with the lie that is told without end in the mainstream media and I would say that the rest of the world has about reached the end of its rope with such lies also and I’m confident that soon people at the top will be brought to justice and these illegal and immoral wars will end.