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Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire (Retired)

Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire (Retired) was the force commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda, or UNAMIR, in 1993 and 1994. When the genocide started, he had to do his best with the minimal amount of forces he was left with to save as many civilians as possible and try to calm the chaos that was all around him. Here he speaks about the importance of the conference and reflects on the lessons learned in the years since the Rwandan genocide as well as challenges that still affect peacekeeping today.

Transcript

Question One: What can be accomplished by bringing together key decision makers from 1994 to assess the events that led up to the genocide in Rwanda?

First thing is actually having them sitting around a large square table or set of tables to talk. Because many of us have either avoided each other or not spoken or simply read what we’ve written and been left on our appetite, and “Boy I’d love to see him again.” So, there’s the formal sessions and then the informal sessions where we’re able to get a snippe

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7860 Lieutenant-General, the Honourable Roméo Antonius Dallaire, OC, CMM, GOQ, MSC, CD

1946 -

A second-generation Canadian soldier, Dallaire was born in the Netherlands. He spent his childhood in Montreal, entered CMR Saint-Jean in 1964, graduated from RMC in 1969 with a Bachelor of Science degree and was commissioned into The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery. Subsequently, he attended the Canadian Land Force Command and Staff College, the US Marine Corps Command and Staff College, and the British Higher Command and Staff Course.

Dallaire commanded the 5e Régiment d’artillerie légère du Canada, was Director of Land Requirements for four years, was promoted to Brigadier-General and appointed Commandant of CMR Saint-Jean from 1989 to 1991. He then commanded the 5e Groupe-brigade mécanisé du Canada in Valcartier.

In 1993, Dallaire was given command of the United Nations Observer Mission Uganda-Rwanda (UNOMUR) and the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), charged with assisting in the implementation of the Arusha Accords, a peace agreement after three years

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Roméo Dallaire

Canadian military officer and politician (born 1946)

Roméo Antonius DallaireOC CMM GOQ MSC CD (born June 25, 1946) is a retired Canadian politician and military officer who was a senator from Quebec from 2005 to 2014, and a lieutenant-general in the Canadian Armed Forces. He notably was the force commander of UNAMIR, the ill-fated United Nationspeacekeeping force for Rwanda between 1993 and 1994, and for trying to stop the genocide that was being waged by Hutu extremists against Tutsis. Dallaire is a Senior Fellow at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) and co-director of the MIGS Will to Intervene Project.^[4]^[5]

Early life and education

Roméo Antonius Dallaire was born in Denekamp, Netherlands to Staff-Sergeant Roméo Louis Dallaire, a Canadian non-commissioned officer, and Catherine Vermeassen, a Dutch nurse. Dallaire came to Canada with his mother as a six-month-old baby on the Empire Brent, landing in Halifax on December 13, 1946. He spent his childhood in Montreal.

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