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The UN Commander Haunted by Rwanda

After saving tens of thousands of people during the Rwandan genocide, Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire has grappled with post-traumatic stress.

In the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, 800,000 people were killed in the space of 100 days. There was a small United Nations force in Rwanda at the start of the killing to assist in the implementation of a peace deal. During the conflict, Canadian general Romeo Dallaire did everything he could to protect Tutsis from Hutu extremists, and is credited with saving tens of thousands of lives. But he has never recovered from what he witnessed. He has suffered with post-traumatic stress disorder for two decades, and has thrown himself into humanitarian work as a way to deal with it. He was in the UK recently at the Rising Global Peace Forum, where he was speaking about his Child Soldiers Initiative.

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(Photo: Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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