{{‘{A Good Man In Rwanda’ } – is a BBC documentary. Journalist Mark Doyle tells the story of one of the unsung heroes of Rwanda\u2019s genocide, Mbaye Diagne.}}<\/p>\n
On 7 April 1994 this Senegalese captain, working with the UN\u2019s peacekeeping mission in Kigali, helped save the lives of five children. <\/p>\n
They were the children of Rwanda\u2019s moderate Hutu Prime Minister, Agathe Uwilingiyimana, who had just been murdered by Hutu extremists.<\/p>\n
Mbaye Diagne was to carry out many further acts of heroism during the genocide, which claimed the lives of well over a million people, mainly ethnic Tutsis. <\/p>\n
Most were bludgeoned and hacked to death with clubs and machetes at the behest of the Hutu government that had just taken power.<\/p>\n
A larger than life character with a ready smile, Mbaye Diagne had a knack of humouring the Interahamwe militia at checkpoints. He saved hundreds of Tutsi\u2019s and did so at great personal risk. <\/p>\n
Time and again he smuggled scores of Tutsis to the relative safety of the Hotel des Mille Collines in the centre of Kigali.<\/p>\n
Mark Doyle got to know Mbaye Diagne when he was reporting on the genocide for the BBC and even credits him with saving his own life at a checkpoint when he was threatened by a militiaman armed with a grenade.<\/p>\n
In A Good Man In Rwanda, Doyle travels to Rwanda, Senegal and Canada to meet the people who knew Mbaye Diagne. <\/p>\n
He meets the man who commanded the UN peace-keeping force, General Romeo Dallaire; he meets his wife and one of closest comrades in arms and he meets the people whose lives he saved – some of whom have never told their stories before.<\/p>\n
“I saw evil in Rwanda in 1994,” says Mark Doyle, “but I also saw extraordinary acts of courage by people who simply knew what was right and what was wrong. <\/p>\n
Mbaye Diagne was just such a person \u2013 a good man in Rwanda.” Watch excerpts of the documentary. <\/p>\n
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