Inspiration to Live Your Magic: 75 Inspiring Biographies



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Roméo Dallaire
Roméo Dallaire went through a horrific experience that changed his 
life and almost destroyed it; but since that time, he has been a tireless 
international advocate for a number of critical global causes.
In 1983, the African nation of Rwanda was in bad shape. The two main tribes, the Hutus 
and the Tutsis, were arguing over how to share power, and people were afraid there 
would be a civil war.
In fact, something even worse was about to happen - genocide. Genocide is the attempt 
by one group of people to completely wipe out another group, as the Nazis tried to do to 
the Jews in World War II.
The United Nations had troops in Rwanda to try to keep the peace, and Canadian General 
Roméo Dallaire was put in charge of the troops. He didn’t have many soldiers and his 
orders were to supervise a peace, not fight a war.
But Dallaire and other observers could see the situation was getting worse. Radical Hutu 
leaders were talking about killing every Tutsi - even the children - and anyone else who 
got in their way. Dallaire asked for more troops to prevent a bloodbath, but the United 
Nations argued and debated instead of acting. The general still had a terrible shortage of 
troops when the killings began.
It was a horrific time, with gangs of armed Hutus massacring whole Tutsi villages. 
General Dallaire used his troops as best as he could to guard areas where there were 
Tutsis hiding. He often bluffed the Hutu militias into thinking he had more soldiers or 
authority than he really did.


The terrible slaughter went on for one hundred days and an estimated one million people 
were murdered before the United Nations finally sent in enough troops to bring peace. 
For Roméo Dallaire, it was one hundred days of danger, horror, and frustration. But he 
would not give up, and he did everything he could to stop the violence. It has been 
estimated that his brave actions saved some 32,000 lives.
Afterwards, however, he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - a deep 
depression that often affects soldiers and other people who have been through horrific 
situations with loss - and in this case, massive loss - of human life. At one point, General 
Dallaire even tried to kill himself.
Today, Roméo Dallaire is a decorated hero, an Officer of the Order of Canada, a member 
of the Canadian Senate, and an outspoken advocate who has devoted his life to several 
causes - fighting racism, helping people who suffer from PTSD, and working to stop the 
use of children as soldiers. He has demonstrated two important forms of bravery, facing 
up to external dangers and his own internal demons.
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