Claims Dallaire: Dallaire and Rpf Violence

claims dallaire: On his recent five country African "reconnaissance" tour defence minister Harjit Sajjan included an individual whose standing is intimately tied to a military leader who has destabilized large swaths of the continent, according to Rabble. Accompanying Sajjan was General Romeo Dallaire, who backed Paul Kagame Rwandan Patriotic Front in 1993/94 and continues to publicly support the "Butcher of the Great Lakes." In his 2005 book Le patron de Dallaire parle , Jacques-Roger Booh Booh, a former Cameroon foreign minister and overall head of the mid-90s UN mission in Rwanda, claims Dallaire ignored RPF violence, turned a blind eye to the weapons they received from Uganda and possibility shared UN intelligence with the Ugandan sponsored rebels. So, what should those of us who want Canada to be a force for good in the world think about the Trudeau government plan to join a UN stabilization mission in Mali, Congo, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Central African Republic or South Sudan First, we have good reason to be cynical. Dallaire doesn't deny his admiration for Kagame. Dallaire then explained: "It had been amazing to see Kagame with his guard down for a couple of hours, to glimpse the passion that drove this extraordinary man." Dallaire interaction with the RPF was not in the spirit of UN guidelines that called on staff to avoid close ties to individuals, organizations, parties or factions of a conflict. In Shake Hands with the Devil, published several years after Kagame unleashed unprecedented terror in the Congo, Dallaire wrote: "My guys and the RPF soldiers had a good time together" at a small cantina. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.