Dave Van Kesteren at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

On October 26th, 2010. See this statement in context.

October 26th, 2010 / 4:40 p.m.

Conservative

Dave Van Kesteren Conservative Chatham-Kent—Essex, ON

Thank you for coming.

I was just Googling a little bit to give myself a little bit more of a history lesson. There's a period I'm unfamiliar with, and that is....

I understand that your independence was in 1956, I believe it was--prior to that as well, too. But in the 1980s, you were involved with a civil war. Was that more or less maybe instigated by Ethiopia? Or was...?

I'm thinking back in terms of the 1980s, when the Horn of Africa was under Soviet influence. Was there a movement to export the revolution into Sudan at that time?

Am I correct in my thinking there?

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