Romeo Dallaire
Romeo Dallaire
Lieutenant-General Roméo Antonius Dallaire, OC CMM GOQ MSC CDis a Canadian humanitarian, author, public speaker and retired senator and general. Dallaire served as Force Commander of UNAMIR, the ill-fated United Nations peacekeeping force for Rwanda between 1993 and 1994, and attempted to stop the genocide that was being waged by Hutu extremists against Tutsis and Hutu moderates. Dallaire is the founder of The Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative, a Senior Fellow at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights...
rights causes advancement
Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.
area heel implement mandate resources stronger
They (the AU) need a stronger mandate with enough resources to implement it, ... Their Achilles' heel is in the area of logistical and communications requirements.
continued criminal days disgusting eyes genocide
The genocide was brutal, criminal and disgusting and continued for 100 days under the eyes of the international community,
anyone support
The day all that started, the U.S. said not only are we not getting involved, we are not going to support anyone else getting involved.
communication world revolution
Those who are mastering more and more the communications revolution, those who realize that there are no borders in the world, are the ones who are going to leap ahead.
laughing trying guilt
There was no way to laugh anymore, to love, to care, and there was a sense of guilt in having survived when others had been killed. I turned into a worse workaholic than I had already been by trying to work myself into the ground.
pain stress home
The night I flew out from Rwanda, I landed in Nairobi, and I was on my way back home, and my left side started to paralyze and remained paralyzed with pain, and the stress and so on began to appear physically.
country strong independent
For most countries, serving the UN's objectives has never seemed worth even the smallest of risks. Member nations do not want a large, reputable, strong and independent United Nations, no matter their hypocritical pronouncements otherwise. What they want is a weak, beholden, indebted scapegoat of an organization, which they can blame for their failures or steal victories from.
believe people reason-why
The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.
children war reality
It may seem unimaginable to you that child soldiers exist and yet the reality for many rebel and gang leaders, and even state governments, is that there is no more complete end-to-end weapon system in the inventory of war machines than the child soldierMan has created the ultimate cheap, expendable, yet sophisticated human weapon at the expense of humanity's own future: its children.
humans
Are all humans human? Or are some more human than others?
bridges car suffering
I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life.
hands devil rwanda
I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists and therefore I know there is a God.
struggle ego subterfuge
Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?