On October 19, 2008, Captain Robert Semrau of the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Canadian Regiment shot and killed an unarmed and seriously injured Taliban insurgent in the province of Helmand, Afghanistan. At the time of the shooting, Captain Semrau was employed as the commander of the Operational Liaison and Mentoring Team, call sign 72A, consisting of four Soldiers divided into two fire teams. The team had been conducting a mop-up operation in conjunction with the Afghan National Army, which they were supporting when the company's forward faction came across an enemy position. Intense firefighting ensued, leading Captain Semrau to launch an airstrike with an Apache helicopter. After the airstrike ended, both divisions moved forward and encountered a Taliban guerrilla who had been seriously injured when he was knocked down from a tree by the Apache strike. The Afghan National Army officer on scene, Captain Shaffigullah, determined that "the man was too injured to be saved, telling others: Allah willing, he will die." Otherwise, he will live. Unsatisfied with this, Captain Semrau made what he perceived to be a moral decision and then fired two bullets into the insurgent's chest to put him "out of his misery." The "mercy killing" was kept secret among witnesses from the Operational Liaison and Mentoring Team and the Afghan National Army for two months. The incident remained secret among the inner circle of witnesses for two months before a member of the Afghan National Army broke the silence in December 2008. The breaking of the silence gave Corporal Steven Fournier the courage to discuss the incident. The October 19 incident with Chief Warrant Officer David Fisher and the National Investigation Service. Captain Semrau was then arrested and taken to the middle of paper... that of a "dilemma of competing obligations". Faced with a wounded insurgent who was "98 percent" dead, the decision to shoot him at point-blank range and "put him out of his misery" caused a conflict between Captain Semrau's ethical obligations. The obligations in conflict were integrity, loyalty and responsibility. Each of the obligations that guide Canadian Forces personnel could easily have been applied to the “soldier’s pact.” In Captain Semrau's mind, he had explained that it was morally justified to shoot the insurgent as he ended the misery of the Taliban guerrillas and hoped that someone would do the same for him if the roles were reversed. However he interpreted his ethical obligations, his use of them contravened the supreme authority of Principle I of the Ethical Principles entitled “Respect the Dignity of All Persons..’