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March 1, 8:30pm Alumnae Lounge
Lieutenant-General Dallaire (ret.) was born in Denekamp, Holland, and enrolled in the Canadian Army in 1964. He has held various command, staff and training appointments in Canada and Germany. He was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General on July 3, 1989, and on July 1, 1993 took command of the UN Observer Mission - Uganda and Rwanda (UNOMUR) and the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR). It is for this mission that he was awarded the Meritorious Service Cross. He was promoted to Major General on January 1, 1994 and from September 1994 to October 1995, he assumed simultaneously the positions of Deputy Commander of Land Force Command in St. Hubert and Commander of the 1st Canadian Division. On June 2, 1995, the Conference of Defence Associations presented him with "The Vimy Award". Promoted to Lieutenant General, he assumed the duties of Assistant Deputy Minister (Human Resources-Military) in April 1998. He retired from the Canadian army in 2000 and is now special advisor to the Canadian Ministry of Defence on child soldiers. He is the author of the forthcoming Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in the Rwandan Genocide . The inaugural Aegis Award for Genocide Prevention was presented to Romeo Dallaire in January 2002 for demonstrating "altruism, resourcefulness and bravery in preserving the value of human life."
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