 Captain Imbai Jiang was a man of immense courage during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda against Tutsis and moderate Hutus when it seemed the world had turned away from its duty of protection for the Rwandan people. Captain Imbai Jiang, a Senegalese UN peacekeeper, went out, unarmed day after day into the streets of Kigali to rescue people being threatened by death. Smuggling them in his vehicle, he negotiated countless checkpoints on a daily basis for weeks, each encounter posing enormous dangers both to him and to those being rescued before driving them to places of safety. In the period before he was tragically killed by an explosive weapon, Captain Jiang managed to save hundreds of people, perhaps thousands or more. These were the actions of a very great and deeply honorable person. The United Nations owes Captain Jiang its deepest gratitude and recognition for his colossal heroism. In those days in the 1990s I was working for the UN in the former Yugoslavia where people were being killed cruelly. I know that in such circumstances many heroes, many unsung heroes, will make tremendous personal sacrifices to save lives and stand up for the rights of our fellow human beings. Like Captain Jiang, who stands perhaps alone at the apex of courageous conduct, these men and women have the power to inspire all of us to take action on behalf of others. And not only in times of genocide and warfare. We can stand up for justice, for human dignity, equality and freedom. We can stand up for the bullied and oppressed. Captain and by Jiang and other human rights defenders have lived up to their principles even when it may be very difficult to do so. Every human being can take heart from their example.