It went up during the mission. I'm not trying to say it's a cause, but it's of particular interest to me since I was in Afghanistan working for an international agency at the time. I think other international agencies didn't recognize this problem. Again, I'll give credit to the Canadian military: other agencies also had suicides and didn't recognize it at all. There seems to be some connection between that operation and the increase.
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