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SOLDIER SENTENCED: A 25-year-old Canadian soldier was sentenced to five years in prison and given a dishonorable discharge Friday in Petawawa, Ontario, for his role in the beating death of a 16-year-old boy in Somalia. Pvt. Elvin Kyle Brown was sentenced by the same five-officer military court that convicted him Wednesday of manslaughter and torture. It was the first torture conviction in Canada. He could have drawn a life sentence. Military trials of five other soldiers and officers charged in the May 16, 1993, death of Shidane Arone will be held later this year.