Roméo Dallaire Quote

The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.

Roméo Dallaire

The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.

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About Roméo Dallaire

Roméo Antonius Dallaire (born June 25, 1946) is a retired Canadian politician and military officer who was a senator from Quebec from 2005 to 2014, and a lieutenant-general in the Canadian Armed Forces. He notably was the force commander of UNAMIR, the ill-fated United Nations peacekeeping force for Rwanda between 1993 and 1994, and for trying to stop the genocide that was being waged by Hutu extremists against Tutsis. Dallaire is a Senior Fellow at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) and co-director of the MIGS Will to Intervene Project.