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The rape scenes. Sticks and bottles were introduced to them that they broke; their breasts were cut off. All those scenes with women, for me, with my culture, they seemed the worst you can imagine. Even dead, you saw in the eyes of those women the horror and suffering, the indignity they had endured. Children were often killed in front of their parents, cutting off their limbs and genitalia, and letting them bleed to death. Then they also killed the parents. There were people who paid to be shot instead of being killed with a machete. "Pay for how to die ...".
― Dallaire horrified at remembering such acts of evil

Roméo Antonius Dallaire, (born June 25, 1946) is a Canadian humanitarian, author, statesman 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 the Tutsi people and Hutu moderates.

In addition, on December 13, 2003, he stated in an interview with the newspaper Le Devoir: “Eight hundred thousand people died in the spring of 1994, and no one has moved. Two thousand nine hundred people disappeared in Manhattan on September 11, 2001, and Bush mobilized the entire world. Look, I'm having difficulties with that.

Several people tried to stop the Rwandan genocide or protect vulnerable Tutsis. Among them were Roméo Dallaire (UNAMIR Canadian Lieutenant General), Henry Kwami Anyidoho (UNAMIR Ghana Subcommander), Pierantonio Costa (Italian diplomat who rescued many lives), Antonia Locatelli (Italian volunteer who in 1992, two years before The current genocide tried to save 300 or 400 Tutsis by calling officials of the international community and then was killed by the Interahamwe), Jacqueline Mukansonera (Hutu woman who saved a Tutsi during the genocide), Zura Karuhimbi, Paul Rusesabagina, Carl Wilkens (the only American who chose to remain in Rwanda during the genocide), André Sibomana (Hutu priest and journalist who saved many lives) and Captain Mbaye Diagne (UNAMIR Senegalese army officer who saved many lives before being killed).

Now he lives in Quebec City with his family.

On May 28, 2014, he announces his intention to leave his position as a senator, being too much demanded in other places in Canada, as well as internationally in archives as child soldiers, writing two books, supporting wounded soldiers and their families,

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+'''Roméo Antonius Dallaire''', (born June 25, 1946) is a Canadian humanitarian, author, statesman 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 the Tutsi people and Hutu moderates.
 In addition, on December 13, 2003, he stated in an interview with the newspaper Le Devoir: “Eight hundred thousand people died in the spring of 1994, and no one has moved. Two thousand nine hundred people disappeared in Manhattan on September 11, 2001, and Bush mobilized the entire world. Look, I'm having difficulties with that.