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Biography
Roméo Antonius Dallaire is a retired Canadian politician and military officer who was a senator from Quebec from 2005 to 2014, and a lieutenant-general in the Canadian Armed Forces. He notably was the force commander of UNAMIR, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda between 1993 and 1994, during the Genocide against the Tutsi. Dallaire was a Senior Fellow at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) and co-director of the MIGS Will to Intervene Project.
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Awards & recognition
- Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec · 2005
- Pearson Medal of Peace · 2005
- Freedom Award · 2004
- Governor General's Award — English-language non-fiction · 2004
- Officer of the Order of Canada · 2002
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- Honorary doctor of the University of Ottawa
- honorary doctorate at the Laval University
- Legionnaire of Legion of Merit
- Officer of the Legion of Merit
- Shaughnessy Cohen Prize — Political Writing
