Romeo Dallaire
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Lieutenant-General The Honourable Roméo Dallaire OC, CMM, GOQ, MSC, CD |
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| Senator from Quebec (Gulf) | |
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In office March 25, 2005 – June 17, 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Roch Bolduc |
| Succeeded by | Éric Forest |
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Roméo Antonius Dallaire June 25, 1946 Denekamp, Netherlands |
| Political party | Independent Liberal (2014) |
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Liberal (2005–2014) |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Dallaire née Roberge |
| Profession | Lieutenant-General (ret'd), Canadian Forces |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
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 Canadian Army
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| Years of service | 1963–2000 |
| Rank | Lieutenant-general |
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Lieutenant-General Roméo Antonius Dallaire,OC CMM GOQ MSC CD (born June 25, 1946) is a Canadian humanitarian, bestselling author, public speaker and retired senator and general. Dallaire served as Force Commander of UNAMIR, the ill-fated United Nations peacekeeping force for Rwanda between 1993 and 1994, and attempted to stop the genocide that was being waged by Hutu extremists against Tutsis and Hutu moderates. Dallaire is the founder of The Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative, a Senior Fellow at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) and Co-Director of the Will to Intervene Project that released a policy recommendation report "Mobilizing the Will to Intervene: Leadership and Action to Prevent Mass Atrocities."
Dallaire was born in Denekamp, Netherlands, to Staff-Sergeant Roméo Louis Dallaire, a non-commissioned officer in the Canadian Army, and Catherine Vermaessen, a Dutch nurse. Dallaire came to Canada with his mother as a six-month-old baby on the Empire Brent, landing in Halifax on December 13, 1946. He spent his childhood in Montreal.
He enrolled in the Canadian Army in 1963, as a cadet at Le Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean. In 1970 he graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada with a Bachelor of Science degree and was commissioned into The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery.
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