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Lessons from Rwanda

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April 13th, 2005 - 05:51PM
Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire, the former commander of the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda addresses an audience at the 2004 IRC Freedom Award dinner, where he was honored for his humanitarian efforts.
Photo: Diane Bondareff for the IRC

In a piece published yesterday in the International Herald Tribune, General Romeo Dallaire, former commander of the U.N. assistance mission in Rwanda, reflected on the genocide that began in that country eleven years ago last week. He called the conflict, "the greatest slaughter of human beings since the Holocaust."

"If there is any useful lesson that can be drawn from the events of April 1994, it is surely one about just how personal genocide is: for those who are killed, of course, but also for those who kill, and for those, however far away, who just do nothing."

The IRC recently honored General Dallaire with its Distinguished Humanitarian Award for his extraordinary bravery during the 1994 genocide and for his humanitarian efforts since then.


Posted By: Kathleen Sands | Africa
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