- Atrocities, Canadian Personal narratives, Genocide, History
A Canadian general and former United Nations peacekeeper shares his harrowing eyewitness account of the genocide in Rwanda, revealing how he and his men managed to rescue thousands of people despite the orgy of bloodletting that was erupting all around them. Reprint
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and overwhelming.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Roméo Dallaire
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 562
- Publisher
- ARROW, Libre expression, Arrow Books
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780679311713
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“My first love has always been the army.”
Roméo Antonius Dallaire OC CMM GOQ MSC CD is a Canadian humanitarian, author, retired senator and Canadian Forces lieutenant-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. *-- Wikipedia* *Photo Attribution:* Michelle Campbell, CEO, St Joseph's Health Care Foundation, London Ontario, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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