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Britain, 375, 486

contingent from, 444

Broad-Based Government of National Unity, 475–6

broad-based transitional government (
BBTG
).
See also
Arusha Peace Agreement; deadlines

lists of members, 123, 132–3, 210–11

swearing in of, 136, 138–9, 141, 178–9, 188, 205

sworn-in, 87

Brown and Root, 468, 486, 490

Bucyana, Martin, 132, 189

Bukavu, Zaire, 336, 469, 473–4, 476, 483

Burundi

coup d'état
, 97–8, 131

genocide, 339

south border of, 87

and
UN
mission, 208

Bushnell, Prudence, 211, 337

Bussières, Major Michel, 304, 363

Butare, Rwanda, 292, 316–17, 334

Byumba, Rwanda, 216, 287–8

Cambodia, 85

Camp Bagogwe, 122

Camp Kanombe, 353, 384–5, 462, 469

Camp Kigali, 236–43, 245–6, 251, 253, 256–7

Canada Day, 453–4

Canadian aid to Rwanda, 216

Canadian connections to Rwanda

and Ghanaian troops, 177

and Quebec convent, 500

through Quebec, 60–1, 132, 162

through Saskatchewan, 83

Canadian contingent, 435–6, 444, 484, 490

air traffic controllers, 485–6

Canadian Forces Peace Support Training Centre, 520–1

Canadian government and
UN
mission in Rwanda, 53, 85, 206–7, 296, 336, 375, 435–6, 487

Carr, Madame, 314

Carrier, Roch, 39

Carroll, Linda, 278–8n

CBC

As It Happens
, 333

CDR
(extremist Hutu party), 115, 132–3, 210–11

ceasefire in Rwanda, 298, 306–8, 311, 330, 341.
See also
Arusha negotiations

hostage taking, 423–6

intent to reach, 398

negotiations, 299–301

and
RPF
victory, 474–5

senseless, 390

and signing of Arusha Peace Agreement, 53

Standing Operating Procedures, 371–2

Chalker, Baroness, 486

chapter-seven peacekeeping, 71–2, 307

and France, 422, 436

chapter-six peacekeeping

“Chapter six and a half,” 72, 359–60, 364

limits of commander, 146

principles of, 40–1

Rwanda as candidate for, 71

Charlier, General Jose, 293

Chevrette, Michel, 15–16

Chez Lando, 61

Chiasson, Roy, 26–7

cholera, 482–3

churches as sanctuaries, 190

CIDA
, 216

civilian clothes, 51

civil war (Rwanda).
See also
Arusha Peace Agreement

and displaced persons, 63–4

factors in the, 513–14

and the French, 451

and genocide, 1

a hundred days, 262, 289, 291, 305–6, 336, 461

and the
RGF
, 247, 251–2, 301

and the
UN
, 5, 209, 233–3n

and the victors, 434, 475–6 (
See also
Rwandese Patriotic Front (
RPF
))

Claes, Willy, 180, 185–6, 276, 354

Claeys, Captain Frank

description of, 121–2

and intelligence team, 201, 287

meeting with informant, 142

saving lives, 160

Clark, Lance, 337

Clausewitz, Karl von
On War
, 35

Clinton, President, 471–2, 489–90

CND
.
See
Conseil national pour le développement (
CND
)

CNN
, 93

Cold War, 19, 33, 37–8, 41, 71

Coleman, Lieutenant Colonel Ralph, 505

Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean (
CMR
), 17, 19–20, 38–9

Colonel Francis, 466

colonialism, 120–1, 451, 513

Commander Charles, 130, 193, 265–6, 300–1

communications, 203, 229–32, 264, 267, 270, 308.
See also
security

communiqué commandement des forces armées Rwandaises
, 292–3

concept of operations, 86–9

Congo, 519

contingent from, 434–5

Conseil national pour le développement (
CND
), 126–7, 129–30, 157–8

Costa, Major, 424

Crisis Committee, 224, 234, 239–41, 246–56, 266–8, 278

Dallaire speech to, 237–8

Cross, James, 24, 27

curfew, 194

Cyangugu, Rwanda, 292, 397–8, 474

Dallaire, Lieutenant General Roméo.
See also
military career (General Dallaire)

academic performance, 15–16, 19, 22, 35

after Rwanda, xii, 5

bilingual, 13–14, 19–21

dream of soldiering, 8, 15–16

and family, 34–7, 40, 53, 93, 470, 501

(
See also
Roberge, Elizabeth “Beth” (wife))

on leave, 206, 470

memories of Rwanda, 314–15, 467, 499–501, 503–4

writing the book, 5–7

youth, 8–9, 12–16, 45

Dallaire, Roméo Louis (father), 318

advice to son, 18, 30, 97

death of, 34

his story, 9–11, 14

DDT
(insecticide), 186

deadlines, 58

for demobilization, 74

impossibility of, 80

significance of date, 78

death of Canadian soldiers

in air crash, Bagorville, Quebec, 28–30

in October Crisis, 23

death of soldiers in Rwanda, 239–40, 296–6n, 400, 423–6, 467

death squads, 142, 179–80

de Gaulle, Charles, 21–2

de Kant, Captain Willem

aide-de-camp, 97

close call of, 192–3

departure of, 217–18

description of, 95

living quarters, 108

Delcroix, Léo, 205

de Chastelain, General John, 206

de Liso, Christine, 178, 379n

Delporte, Major Eddy, 70

Deme, Captain Amadou, 121–2, 150, 287–8, 299

demilitarized zone

climate of security, 88

dimensions of, 102

first visit to, 64–7

redrawing of, 170–2

demobilization

deadline for, 74

funding of, 153, 205

plan for, 88–9

democratic elections, 89

Degni-Segui, René, 419

desertion, 68, 70

Dewez, Lieutenant Colonel Joe, 282, 290, 309–10

departure of, 317–18

Diagne, Major, 313n, 313–14

Diefenbaker, John, 23

displaced persons' camp, 63–4, 401–2

Dom Bosco School, 289–90

donor-country round table, 153n4

Dounkov, Lieutenant Colonel, 296–6n

Doyle, Mark, 304, 332, 364, 400

DPKO
.
See
UN
Department of Peacekeeping Operations

Dr. Jacques, 265–6

drought, 59, 114

Duplessis, Maurice, 16

École Supérieure Militaire, 236

Edwards, Ambassador Lucie, 417–18

elders in the military, 28, 39

Enright, Michael, 333

Entebbe, 416, 483, 486–7

equipment.
See also
APC
(armoured personnel carrier)

abandoned, 401, 431

aggressive lobbying for, 91

ammunition, 215

Belgians', 309

conditions and supplies, 302, 379–80

consequences of lack of, 151, 172–4, 181–2

lack of vehicles, 106–7, 203, 331, 408, 431, 498

resourcefulness, 444

scrounging for, 102, 135–6, 177, 393–4

Ethiopian contingent, 444

ethnic identity.
See
identity cards

ethnic war, 72, 98, 305, 333, 342, 368, 389

European Union, 495–6, 496n

evacuation of Rwanda, 220

Evraire, Major General Richard, 37

expatriate population in Rwanda

Canadians, 128

evacuation of, 220, 272, 275–8, 278n, 282, 285–7, 289–90, 314, 317, 339

French protection of, 61–2, 124

transfer of, 458

UN
protection of, 238, 243, 260, 268, 301, 325

Falklands, 35

family life of a soldier, 93

Figoli, Colonel Herbert, 99, 105, 152

flag-raising ceremony, 102–5

FLQ
.
See
Front de libération du Québec

Forand, Brigadier General Alain, 45

“forces démocratiques de changement,” 464

Fossey, Dian, 448

Fowler, Bob, 206, 403–4

France.
See also
Opération Turquoise

arms to Rwanda, 62

crisis committee on Rwanda, 422

evacuation of expatriates, 275, 292

historic involvement in Rwanda, 47

intervention in Rwanda, 418, 425–6, 518

military advisers to, 68, 210, 223

military advisers to
RGF
, 225

opinion of mission, 76, 130

para-battalion in Kigali, 71

in Rwanda, 285–6

support for mission, 84, 209

withdrawal of troops, 87

Franco-African contingents, 434–5, 448

Fréchette, Louise, 85

French ambassador to Rwanda.
See
Marlaud, Jean-Phillippe

French military attaché, 76

Front de libération du Québec (
FLQ
), 23–7

funding for the military, 37–8

funding of the mission, 56, 74, 110, 153, 174, 205

UNAMIR
2, 375–6

Gabiro, Rwanda, 199, 288

Gafarange, Théoneste, 132

Gaillard, Philippe, 297, 319, 493

Gasana, Anastase, 57, 83–4, 104, 254

Gatabazi, Félicien, 132, 187–9, 195–6

Gatete, Remy, 336–7

Gatsinzi, Major General Marcel, 251–4, 292, 300–1, 423, 469

Gatuna bridge, 217

Gendarmerie, 68, 70

and change in officers' ranks, 148n2

and death of Habyarimana, 223

and enforcement of
KWSA
, 160–1

and guarding of
VIP
s, 191

and joint session
RPF
and
RGF
, 73

and lists of names, 231

and need of riot gear, 173

génocidaires

meeting with, 345–7, 369–70

no warning of, 79

in refugee camps, 336–7

who they are, 249, 298, 456–7, 506

genocide.
See also
civil war (Rwanda); massacres; shootings and killings

Ayala Lasso's report of, 363

in Burundi, 339

in Butare, 316

children of, 466–7, 510–12

continues, 518–19

in control of, 386, 513–14

description of their bodies, 284–5, 291–2, 303, 305–6, 325, 329, 401, 430–2

and the French, 426, 451–2

how people died, 157–60, 279–81, 289–90, 297–8, 313–14, 360–2, 430, 461–2

investigation of, 419

myth of “double genocide,” 479

the number of people, 5, 309, 318, 336, 375, 478

and roadblocks, 439

and the
RPF
, 344, 357–8, 438

and the
UN
, 5–6, 323

use of term, 333, 374, 395, 454

Ghanaian contingent

arrival of, 176–8

band music, 217

commitment of, 257–8, 319, 362

death of soldiers, 309, 360

in demilitarized zone, 271

doctor, 423–4

and drivers, 328, 457, 503

effectiveness of, 369, 406

and guard duty in Kigali, 197, 202–3, 215, 241–2, 321–2

honoured, 446

to
HPZ
, 494–5

prisoners, 237

reinforcements of, 465

and security of Force
HQ
, 274

sharpshooter, 1

wounded soldiers, 309, 350–2

Gharekhan, Chinmaya, 293

Gikondo Parish Church, 279.
See also
Polish Mission massacre

Gikongoro, Rwanda, 292, 362

Gisenyi, Rwanda, 271, 291, 313–14, 397, 463–4

Gitarama, Rwanda, 277, 410

global wealth, 520–1

Godson, Major Arthur, 127–8

Golo, Allay (
CAO
), 415, 417

Goma, Zaire

arms supply route, 201, 363, 397

and French, 439, 458, 469

meetings with French, 447–9, 473

and refugees, 336, 367, 388, 471, 473, 475–7

shelling of, 474

U.S. aid to, 479–81, 497–9

Gorillas in the Mist
(movie), 68, 314

Granta
magazine, 400

Grasshopper (code name), 178

Great Lakes Region, Africa, 46–7, 212, 517–19

Gueye, Moctar, 218

Gulf War, 39, 71

Gunther, Corporal Daniel, 41

Habyarimana, Major General Juvénal, 47–8

absence of, 104

daughter, 206

death of, 219, 221, 224, 330

and death squads, 180

description of, 77

and France, 62, 450

lists for transitional government, 132–3

meetings with, 58, 76–7, 101, 109–10, 148, 201–2

meeting with U.S., 211

not in charge, 162

peace talk beginnings, 48

political impasse, 122, 193–4

revelations from, 118–19

Hallqvist, Per O., 99–100, 102, 107–8, 136, 175–6

Hannay, Sir David, 374

Hanrahan, Colonel Mike, 444, 487

Hansen, Peter, 328–9, 337, 483

Haque, Colonel Azrul, 201

hard-liners, 79, 86–7, 105, 123, 169

headquarters of
UNAMIR
.
See also
Amahoro (Peace) Stadium; Hôtel des Mille Collines

under attack, 308–10, 334, 350–1, 361–2

finding of, 106

official opening, 109–10

and
RPF
, 330

Hein, Arturo, 365

helicopters for mission, 85, 88, 199, 203, 207, 356

arrived, 214, 217

from Belgians, 154, 200

no access to, 95

heroism, 316–17, 323, 352

HIV
/
AIDS
, 325, 483, 512

Holocaust, 12

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