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Romeo Dallaire

Roméo Dallaire's Fight to Make Child Soldiers an Oxymoron

Adam Moscoe | Posted 05.16.2013 | Canada Impact
Adam Moscoe

Fight Like Soldiers, Die Like Children humanizes the global struggle to end the use of children in armed conflict. Pushing aside the morass of international norms and NGO reports -- important and useful as they are -- Dallaire asks a simple yet harrowing question: how is it that we can go "apeshit" -- to use his word -- when our own children's rights are violated, but passively accept the reality of child soldiers throughout the world?

The Child Soldier Who Traded His Machete For a Pair of Scissors

Patrick Reed | Posted 04.29.2013 | Canada
Patrick Reed

Roméo Dallaire declared: "I need a haircut." We had heard that just down the street was a barber shop where the young man cutting hair was a former child soldier. He turned in his weapons, trading a machete (or panga) for scissors, and learned a new trade: "I used to be forced to cut limbs; now I cut hair."

Ryan Maloney

Roméo Dallaire's New Mission

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Maloney | Posted 04.29.2013 | Canada Politics

A single question struck General Roméo Dallaire when he stared down the barrel of that AK-47. Nearly 20 years later, it’s a question that haunts hi...

We Day 2013: Larry King and Roméo Dallaire Give Advice to Their High School Selves

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 04.03.2013 | Canada Impact
Craig and Marc Kielburger

"Never give up when things look the bleakest. There will always be a tomorrow and when I look back, the biggest worries I had weren't that test on Monday, that girl who didn't return my phone call, that sad day my team lost."

Roméo Dallaire Is Fighting to Get Children off the Battlefield

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 05.20.2013 | Canada Impact
Craig and Marc Kielburger

More than 250,000 children under 18 are involved in at least 17 conflicts around the world today. In 2008 Romeo Dallaire, now a Canadian Senator, founded the Child Soldiers Initiative to raise awareness, pressure world governments to take action, and train police and military forces from around the world to protect children and prevent them from being recruited as soldiers.

Star Power: The Last Canadian to Accept the Nobel Peace Prize

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 04.09.2013 | Canada Impact
Craig and Marc Kielburger

In 1999, as Médecins Sans Frontières' international president, Dr. Orbinski, accepted the award on behalf of MSF for its pioneering approach to medical humanitarianism, particularly for its approach to witnessing -- making the atrocities they observe known to the public. We got a chance to sit down with Dr. Orbinski.

Congo In 'Absolute Anarchy': Dallaire

CBC | Posted 02.02.2013 | Canada Politics

The United Nations should take more action to fill the vacuum of governance that's caused Congo to fall into "absolute anarchy" since April, Canadian ...

How Was Canada Knocked Off the International Stage?

Glen Pearson | Posted 02.02.2013 | Canada Politics
Glen Pearson

General Romeo Dallaire was in London, Ontario a couple of weeks ago speaking to a varied audience about Canada's dwindling international presence. Perhaps nowhere was that decline so clearly obvious as in Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird's speech to the UN General Assembly and its vote on Palestinian recognition.

Joshua Ostroff

Rwanda Hero Romeo Dallaire Slams Harper's Foreign Policy

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Ostroff | Posted 10.12.2012 | Canada Politics

Canada’s Senate is supposed to be a house of “sober second thought,” but as far as Liberal senator, retired general and widely -decorated war he...

Thousands Petition To Bring Him Home

CBC | Posted 09.16.2012 | Canada Politics

An online petition calling on the Harper government to bring Omar Khadr home from Guantanamo Bay has attracted thousands of signatures in less than a ...

Omar Khadr Lawyers Appeal To Feds For Gitmo Transfer

CP | Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press | Posted 08.21.2012 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - The United States is frustrated by Canada's reluctance to ask that convicted war criminal Omar Khadr be returned home, a U.S. military lawyer...

The Ongoing Anguish of Romeo Dallaire

Peter Worthington | Posted 03.09.2012 | Canada Politics
Peter Worthington

It's only since Afghanistan that Canadians as a people have become appreciative of what their military has done on their behalf. In past wars or UN missions, what soldiers endured largely went unnoticed at home. The fact that it gnaws at Dallaire indicates that he may not understand soldiering the way others do.

Canadians Can Help Stop the Persecution of Iran's Baha'i

Allan Rock | Posted 03.06.2012 | Canada
Allan Rock

With the eyes of the world on the Arab Spring, the populist struggles in Iran have faded from view. Yet some in Iran continue to face appalling levels of abuse, oppression, and injustice, including the Baha'i, Iran's largest non-Muslim religious minority. We encourage all Canadians to add their voice to halt all further aggression towards the Baha'i.

Romeo Dallaire Slams 'Hotel Rwanda' As 'Junk'

The Huffington Post Canada | Joshua Ostroff | Posted 12.29.2011 | Canada Politics

Senator Romeo Dallaire, the Canadian general who led the overwhelmed UN peacekeepers during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, made a promise the night he lef...

Romeo Dallaire Predicts Revolution Just Getting Started

The Huffington Post Canada | Joshua Ostroff | Posted 02.27.2012 | Canada Politics

If there were two things that defined 2011, they were the Arab Spring uprisings that threw the Middle East into turmoil and the Occupy Wall Street pro...

Dallaire Warns Of Parallels Between Iran, Syria and Rwandan Genocide

The Huffington Post Canada | Joshua Ostroff | Posted 02.05.2012 | Canada Politics

Senator Romeo Dallaire is not one to keep his opinions to himself, not after the world ignored the former UN Commander in Rwanda's warnings of impendi...