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Canada’s Romeo Dallaire is honored for his attempts to halt Rwandan genocide in 1994
By Melinda Henneberger
May 1

Twenty years after the Rwandan genocide he tried to stop and stayed to witness, Roméo Dallaire still has gory flashbacks.

In an interview before the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum dinner Wednesday at which he received the museum’s highest honor, the Elie Wiesel Award, the former commander of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Rwanda talked about the times his post-traumatic stress disorder has made him relive the slaughter.

A dozen years ago, Dallaire said, he saw a street vendor in Sierra Leone raise a machete to chop a coconut in two and “went absolutely [berserk]” at the sight of the weapon that had been wielded with such efficiency in the massacre of more than 800,000 people in only 100 days. “It took three guys to hold me down and for 15 minutes I [was] reliving the genocide’’ in vivid detail.

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The Nick Nolte character in “Hotel Rwanda” was based on Dallaire, although he has said the film was truer to Hollywood than to Kigali. The Holocaust museum’s Web site praises him as someone who in Rwanda “did his utmost to warn the United Nations of the potential outbreak of large-scale ethnic violence. Even when his warnings were went unheeded, he refused to give in to international apathy. He continually called for use of force, and although unable to stop the atrocities, he and his unit nevertheless managed to protect more than 30,000 lives.”

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