"We all know about Romeo Dallaire. He is still pictured in newspapers as a proud general. It's difficult and sad to imagine him as he was found two weeks ago, drunk under a park bench. He appears to be a man whose life is shattered.
His 35-year military career met a shameful end in Rwanda. As commander of a misnamed ''peacekeeping'' mission, he was charged with the impossible task of securing a non-existent peace. His urgent requests for reinforcements were ignored by his superiors, Canadian general Maurice Baril and Kofi Annan at the United Nations. When he was denied permission to take aggressive action, he was left under-armed, hand-tied and powerless.
It was as a soldier obeying orders that Gen. Dallaire stood by and watched as 800, 000 Hutu and Tutsi civilians, along with 10 Belgian peacekeepers, were tortured and killed. Now it is as a lonely man that he suffers the consequences." (more at the link) A documentary is out now on Romeo Dallaire, I noticed it today at Box Office Mojo. --
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