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Canada is a ‘big talker, little doer’: Roméo Dallaire on the horrors of war and Canada’s shrinking role in the world

Liberal Sen. Romeo Dallaire, best known in Canada as the former commander of the UN's ill-fated peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, is seen at Senate caucus in Ottawa on Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press.

Thirty years after the Rwandan genocide that killed more than 800,000, former U.N. Force Commander Roméo Dallaire discusses the atrocity he witnessed, whether peacekeeping and the international human rights movement has failed, Canada’s shrinking role in the world, and if reaching real peace is even achievable.

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