{"id":13364,"date":"2014-03-24T07:39:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T07:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/gen-dallaire-tells-canada-to-act-in-car-to-avoid\/"},"modified":"2014-03-27T09:49:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T09:49:33","slug":"gen-dallaire-tells-canada-to-act-in-car-to-avoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/gen-dallaire-tells-canada-to-act-in-car-to-avoid\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen. Dallaire tells Canada to Act in CAR to Avoid Another Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"
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{{Canadian ({retired}) Gen. Romeo Dallaire and former head of the UN mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR) has called upon the international community not to ignore the ongoing situation in Central African Republic.}}<\/p>\n

He told media that the world \u2014 and Canada, in particular \u2014 is dangerously overlooking how dire CAR\u2019s situation is and he calls on Ottawa to revive Canada\u2019s peacekeeping role and join a proposed UN mission of 12,000. <\/p>\n

He condemned the lack of forceful action to date as a bias against Africa\u2019s conflicts.<\/p>\n

Dallaire noted, \u201cLet\u2019s not divorce what\u2019s happening in the Central African Republic with what happened 20 years ago in Rwanda,\u201d Dallaire said in a recent interview. <\/p>\n

\u201cMore and more, we have been able to present the argument that recruitment of child soldiers is a social breakdown that leads to atrocities, because that\u2019s why they get them. They drug them and so on and there\u2019s no limit to what the kids will end up doing. That escalates to genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Twenty years ago, as the head of the UN mission in Rwanda during the genocide that killed over a million ethnic Tutsi’s in just 100 days, Dallaire\u2019s calls for intervention went unheeded until too late.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve actually established a damn pecking order and the sub-Saharan black African \u2014 yes we\u2019re interested but it just doesn\u2019t count enough to spill our blood, to get embroiled in something complex that will need longer-term stability and influence.\u201d<\/p>\n

When calls of a looming genocide first came here in December, a contingent of 2,000 French troops did arrive quickly, followed by 6,000 African Union peacekeepers, who together now patrol the streets. <\/p>\n

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon\u2019s call for a UN mission is still being debated by the Security Council.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Canada’s Liberal MP Kirsty Duncan has been pressing Ottawa to respond to CAR situation. Her efforts resulted in a four-hour \u201ctake note\u201d debate last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe say \u2018never again,\u2019 but it\u2019s 20 years from Rwanda and it\u2019s ever again,\u201d Duncan said in an interview Friday. \u201cCanada could be playing a substantial role right now in supporting peace and reconciliation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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