Roméo Dallaire, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Roméo Dallaire

Canadian humanitarian, author, and retired senator and general

Date of Birth: 25-Jun-1946

Place of Birth: Denekamp, Overijssel, Netherlands

Profession: writer, military personnel, politician, human rights activist, autobiographer

Nationality: Canada, Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Lieutenant-General The Honourable Roméo Antonius Dallaire, (born June 25, 1946) is a Canadian humanitarian, author, statesman 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 the Tutsi people and Hutu moderates.
Dallaire founded The Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative, to help prevent the recruitment and use of child soldiers.
He is a Senior Fellow at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) and Co-Director of the Will to Intervene Project which published a policy recommendation report, "Mobilizing the Will to Intervene: Leadership and Action to Prevent Mass Atrocities".