The Price of Inaction

"It was Canadian Army General Romeo Dallaire, commander of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in Rwanda, who had warned the UN before the genocide broke out. 'Not one country on Earth,' he said in a recent interview, 'came to stop this thing. The Western world provided me with nothing.' In June 2000, he was 'found unconscious on a park bench in Hull, Quebec, drunk and alone. He had consumed a bottle of scotch on top of his daily dose of pills for post-traumatic stress disorder. He was on another suicide mission.' The Canadian news picked up the story. Dallaire would simply say in reply, 'There are times when the best medication and therapist simply can't help a soldier suffering from this new generation of peacekeeping injury... My soul is in Rwanda. It has never, ever come back, and I'm not sure it ever will.'" - Thaddeus Barnum, Never Silent, pg 84