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...last night’s panel event, Romeo Dallaire, a retired Canadian general who led the ill-fated UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda in 1994, endorsed GIF’s decision to abstain from supporting weapons purchases. He said that millions of illicit small arms are already circulating in the developing world. “They are not void of weapon systems,” said Dallaire, a fellow at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, which sponsored last night’s event. “They are void of trucks. They are void...
...stories about him are true, was quite the ladies' man. The reason for the request is secret, but the episode has the capital twittering with gossip about espionage and sex. It's also a reminder of the Cold- War days when John Symonds, the kgb's so-called "Romeo agent," visited the country. "I did a lot of damage down there in Australia," says the former Scotland Yard detective, contacted by Time at his home in England...
...walls of his hotel. As genocidal Hutu extremists massed along the Mille Collines’ perimeter, Rusesabagina called for help. The US and its allies in the UN Security Council shamelessly ignored Rusesabagina’s cry. The top UN peacekeeper in Rwanda at the time, Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, recounts in his memoirs: “the people in the Mille Collines were like live bait being toyed with by a wild animal, at constant risk of being killed and eaten...
Oliver’s real-life counterpart, Canadian Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, now holds a visiting fellow post at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Dallaire’s journey from the Heart of Darkness to the halls of Harvard is worthy of a film in its own right...
MEANWHILE IN ITALY... WR4 RT THOU? The City of Verona has a problem: thousands of handwritten notes, pasted by lovelorn tourists on the wall beneath the balcony where Shakespeare's star-crossed sweethearts Romeo and Juliet purportedly pledged their love. The city wants to restore the facade of the medieval building, and is looking for a high-tech solution. One option: allowing visitors to leave virtual messages for their amori via SMS or e-mail...