However, the message running through We Were Soldiers is too laboured and too sentimental.

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We Were Soldiers is on general release in the UK from 8 March.

BBC: Soldiers flies Stars and Stripes

We Were Soldiers is a Vietnam War drama that stars Mel Gibson as the commander of an embattled U.S. Army battalion.

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And it will also boycott forthcoming DVD and video releases of the award-winning Mexican film Y Tu Mama Tambien and Mel Gibson's Vietnam epic We Were Soldiers.

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''It's a bold decision by Tsvangirai as we were being threatened by soldiers to be grouped at one polling station, so that we could be evicted if anyone voted for MDC in the run-off, '' said one resettled farmer.

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Within weeks of the end of major combat operations, we had rearmed Iraqi soldiers and were now patrolling the streets with them.

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"We were firmly back inside China when the soldiers apprehended us, " they said.

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Mr Kim knew the commander here, and we were accompanied by a military escort of a half dozen soldiers up a winding jungle trail to the mountainside temple grounds.

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Eight Thai soldiers were lounging on the site when we arrived.

BBC: Piecing together puzzles in Cambodia

"Out of the 46 cases we've seen here so far this month, only two say they were raped by soldiers, " said Dr Kayanga, confirming that this had become the norm.

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At one polling station, we found a unit of Iraqi special forces - with noticeably better equipment than regular army soldiers - were in charge of security, searching everyone going in.

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