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Roméo Antonius Dallaire es un senador canadiense, escritor y militar retirado. Dallaire es conocido por haber prestado servicio como comandante de las Fuerzas de UNAMIR, la fallida misión de Naciones Unidas para el mantenimiento de la paz en Ruanda entre 1993 y 1994, y por tratar de evitar el genocidio que los extremistas hutus llevaban a cabo contra los tutsis y los hutus moderados. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. junio 1946
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“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.”

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Shake Hands with the Devil (2003)
Fuente: Shake Hands With The Devil

“Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.”

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Fuente: They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers

“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.”

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Roméo Dallaire libro Shake Hands with the Devil

Shake Hands with the Devil (2003)

“I think the people in the field were magnificent. And they got the stories, and I put troops at risk to get their stories out every night. But the copy people and the editing people back home, they're the ones who put Tanya Harding on and O. J. Simpson, not the guys in the field.”

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On <i>The Charlie Rose Show</i> giving his opinion of the media's coverage of the Rwanda Crisis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWNS4MkSpYE

“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.”

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When asked about life after UNAMIR

“The possibility of starting a new program at the college — a military Cegep that would allow all officer cadets to spend two years in Saint-Jean before going to Kingston, instead of studying only in Kingston — is being considered. In the spirit of progress, would it be possible to support a principle as basic as the freedom of francophones in the Canadian Armed Forces by establishing a Cegep-style francophone bilingual military college.”

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H7860 Canadian Senator Hon. Roméo Dallaire (CMR/RMC 1969), on Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean (2007)

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