Romeo Dallaire's speech at the National University Of Rwanda

Roméo Dallaire, now-retired General who was in charge of the U.N. Peacekeeping mission during the events of the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, makes a speech to rwandan students at the National University Of Rwanda, in Butare.


The following is a transcription:

"Ladies and gentlemen,

The world is ruled by a belief that will permit other genocides.
The superpowers had no interest in you. They were interested only in Yugoslavia.
The guiding principle was that in Rwanda it's tribalism, it's history repeating itself. In Yugoslavia, "Ah, Yugoslavia it's different. It's 400 of historic conflict between great religions of the world. It's ethnic cleansing, it's European security. It's whites. Rwanda is black. It's in the middle of Africa, it has no strategic value and all that's there", they told me, "are people, and there are too many of them anyway."
Standing here, I say to you that Roméo Dellaire, as Force Commander, failed the Rwandan people sine january 1994."



Extract from the 2004 CBC documentary "Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire"

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[TheALISHABALISHA]

This guy was used for the intervention in Libya. I watched the Rwanda Documentary. Since the lies about Libya, however, and research on the conflict via independent sources I have drawn new conclusions. You see there is something odd about the Genocide of the Tutsi happening at the same time a rebel army was moving forward equipped of Tutsi winning the war and taking over. The genocide pictures when seen in detail showed Hutus in mass displays. The Winner always writes History as they say.

[jubah]

@TheALISHABALISHA you're completely right. The problem is trying to associate 'culture' and 'individuality' up to a point where ethnicity defines a person, as in: tutsis are opressors and hutus are oppressed or inversely, hutus are savage and tutsis are victims. We need to kill this notion... and understand that humans shouldto be judged according to their character, not to their ethnicity. wars could've been avoided if we understood this, but it's simpler to accept the roles the media feeds us.

[Canada1953]

This is good, is there more?

[jubah]

@Canada1953 This is the whole speech scene, after this the original film moves on to another topic, so I don't know if there was more to it :( If you're interested in watching the whole documentary, it is called "Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire"

[livardo]

do you have any more of this?

[jubah]

@livardo This is the whole speech scene, after this the original film moves on to another topic. I don't know if there was more to it :(

[1000wrongdecisions]

What a brutal honesty

[ROBLOXIANgordonrox24]

Darn I wish there was more to this. What a great man. It is unfortunate that he lays so much blame on himself, but that is what terrible experiences like Rwanada will do to you, I guess.

[SauronXIV]

He did not fail anyone. How was he supposed to accomplish anything with the resources he was given?

[landlogger]

the story goes that when he returned to Canada he was in the bad shape from his experiences that he tried suicide.

[ustura2009]

this is a great man, lt-gen Dallaire really truely did everything and anything. he never stopped, left alone in the bloodbath of Rwanda, no one cared, the UN kept cutting more and more of his resources ( LET'S THANK FRANCE FOR THAT) he fought a fight that was lost from day one but HE went on believing he could make stop the killings, Mr. Dallaire you paid a very high price (physical , emotional and personal life ) I am proud to see you up and well to fight the evil, be well, PEACE

[Canada1953]

@jubah Thank you!