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    The United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) was established by United Nations Security Council Resolution 872 on 5 October 1993. It was intended...
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    murdered by Interahamwe militias. A United Nations peacekeeping force – UNAMIR – had been stationed in Rwanda since October 1993, but once the mass slaughter...
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    lieutenant-general in the Canadian Armed Forces. He notably was the force commander of UNAMIR, the ill-fated United Nations peacekeeping force for Rwanda between 1993...
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    of the Polish Armed Forces. In 1994, he served as a peacekeeper in the UNAMIR forces in Rwanda under general Roméo Dallaire. For his dedication in saving...
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    squarely within UNAMIR's mandate; both sides had requested UNAMIR and it had been authorized by the UN Security Council in Resolution 872. UNAMIR's effectiveness...
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    UNAMIR's Bangladeshi officers. The news of the crash, initially reported as an explosion of UNAMIR's ammunition dump, was quickly relayed to UNAMIR Force...
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    the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) and invite General Roméo Dallaire, UNAMIR Force Commander, to the meeting to show that a coup...
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  • 1988 to 1992 and the head of United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR). Booh-Booh was born in Manak, Cameroon. Working at the Ministry of External...
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    prop up the genocidal Hutu regime, and that its mandate undermined the UNAMIR. By facilitating 2 million Rwandan refugees to travel to Kivu provinces...
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    The massacre was the first absolute proof of a genocide discovered by UNAMIR during the Rwandan genocide in 1994. The Rwandan genocide began on April...
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  • Medal and the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal. Kumar acted as second-in-command of UNAMIR until Major General Guy Tousignant of Canada's parting on December 8, 1995...
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    moderate Hutus, Belgians, and the United Nations Mission Assistant for Rwanda (UNAMIR). It is regarded by many Rwandan citizens (a view also shared and expressed...
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  • a Ghanaian contingent led by General Anyidoho was deployed to serve in UNAMIR (United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda) under Canadian General Roméo...
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  • for UNAMIR, although many of these countries were able to remove their foreign nationals from danger. The Ghanaian, Tunisian and Bangladeshi UNAMIR soldiers...
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    from all ranks and the navy deployed four warships. (h) Rwanda (1994–96) (UNAMIR): An Infantry Battalion group, a signal company, and engineer company, staff...
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  • Later, he was assigned to the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), a UN peacekeeping force meant to oversee the implementation of the Arusha...
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  • Dallaire as Force Commander of United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) in August 1994 and also served as assistant Secretary-General of that mission...
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    Kigali and the peace-keeping United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) was sent to the country. The Hutu Power movement was steadily gaining influence...
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    success. Some examples include ONUC in the Congo, UNAVEM in Angola, and UNAMIR in Rwanda. On balance, peacekeeping operations writ large have succeeded...
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    in the Yugoslavia (1992–1995), UNOMUR in Uganda and Rwanda (1993–1994), UNAMIR in Rwanda (1993-1996), UNTAES in Croatia (1996-1998), UNOMIL in Liberia...
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  • fictional in nature, the role was inspired by the UN force commander for UNAMIR, Roméo Dallaire. Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, then-Rwandan president...
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    Luc Marchal, a Belgian officer, who served as Kigali sector commander in UNAMIR, reported that Bagosora told him that the only way to solve Rwanda's problems...
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  • only Tutsi member of the transitional government. On February 17, 1994, UNAMIR commander Roméo Dallaire received information of a plot to assassinate Ndasingwa...
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  • International Airport. Following negotiations between the officials of the UNAMIR (United Nations Mission for assistance in Rwanda), the Rwandan military...
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    Ministry: Richard Sezibera Diplomatic missions of / in Rwanda Passport Visa requirements Visa policy United Nations in Rwanda UNOMUR UNAMIR UNREO v t e...
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    as Force Commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) in 1993–1994, during which he witnessed the 1994 Genocide Against Tutsi...
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    contributed UN peacekeeping in UNAMIR during the Rwandan genocide. In his book Shake Hands with the Devil, Canadian UNAMIR Force Commander Romeo Dallaire...
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    Archived 2013-11-06 at the Wayback Machine O'Halloran, Kevin (2012). Rwanda: Unamir 1994/1995. Big Sky Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921941-48-1. "12.7mm DShK heavy...
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  • United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), and was headed by Canadian general Roméo Dallaire. UNAMIR's initial headquarters was in the Hotel des...
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  • Battalion) took over from the 1st Parachute Battalion in the United Nations UNAMIR mission in Rwanda. On 6 April 1994, following the downing of Rwandan president...
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