Posted on Friday, 24 June 2011

LGEN THE HON. ROMEO DALLAIRE (Retd) TO SPEAK AT FREEDOM DAY!   LGen The Hon. Roméo Dallaire (Ret) is a true hero and an outspoken leader for the 21st century. A decorated Lieutenant General, Dallaire served 35 years with the Canadian Armed Forces. His best-selling book, Shake Hands With the Devil, is a stirring account of his experience as the Force Commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission to Rwanda, which exposes the failures of the international community to stop the genocide. The book was released as a full-length feature film Shake Hands With the Devil – The Journey of Roméo Dallaire and won the Emmy Award for Best Documentary in 2007.In 2010, he published his latest highly anticipated book, They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers in which Dallaire states: “The ultimate focus of the rest of my life is to eradicate the use of child soldiers and to eliminate even the thought of the use of children as instruments of war.” Dallaire’s story shares the most extreme results of being given responsibility without authority. He was limited by immovable parameters, overseen by an organization that didn’t fully support the mission, and put into situations that forced him to question ethics every step of the way.

LGEN THE HON. ROMEO DALLAIRE (Retd) TO SPEAK AT FREEDOM DAY!

 

LGen The Hon. Roméo Dallaire (Ret) is a true hero and an outspoken leader for the 21st century.

A decorated Lieutenant General, Dallaire served 35 years with the Canadian Armed Forces. His best-selling book, Shake Hands With the Devil, is a stirring account of his experience as the Force Commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission to Rwanda, which exposes the failures of the international community to stop the genocide. The book was released as a full-length feature film Shake Hands With the Devil – The Journey of Roméo Dallaire and won the Emmy Award for Best Documentary in 2007.

In 2010, he published his latest highly anticipated book, They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers in which Dallaire states: “The ultimate focus of the rest of my life is to eradicate the use of child soldiers and to eliminate even the thought of the use of children as instruments of war.”

Dallaire’s story shares the most extreme results of being given responsibility without authority. He was limited by immovable parameters, overseen by an organization that didn’t fully support the mission, and put into situations that forced him to question ethics every step of the way.