Interview with Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire, commander of the UN peacekeeping force in Rwanda in 1994 — Transcript

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1. 0:02[Music]
2. 0:13Randa has turned into a bit of a miracle
3. 0:16in rebuilding itself from one of the
4. 0:19most catastrophic types of War which is
5. 0:21the Civil War the incredible steps that
6. 0:23have been done in integrating the
7. 0:26ethnicities into a one nation concept uh
8. 0:30the schooling system uh that is free
9. 0:33medical help uh the sense of security uh
10. 0:38they are all positive gestures as the
11. 0:41economy and business has been moving and
12. 0:43the infrastructure has been totally
13. 0:47modernized the empowerment of women
14. 0:50there's the secret weapon giving women
15. 0:52power to influence within the communal
16. 0:56scenario the national scenarios in a
17. 0:59variety of the professions that will
18. 1:01break the code everything from the
19. 1:04home right through to the president's
20. 1:08office there's now 56% of all elected
21. 1:12officials in in Randa are
22. 1:14women a high uh areas of responsibility
23. 1:18in a government are women we also see an
24. 1:21encouragement of the small economy their
25. 1:24micro economy in villages where they are
26. 1:26run by the women H and young girls are
27. 1:29encouraged courage to engage and to
28. 1:31learn the skills in order to pursue that
29. 1:34I think the other one is seeing more and
30. 1:36more girls getting higher education and
31. 1:39that will give more empowerment of
32. 1:40course I think it's right to commemorate
33. 1:43the 20th anniversary of the genocide
34. 1:46because we cannot let the genocide die
35. 1:50it must remain a focal point uh of
36. 1:55humanity and its failings uh that can go
37. 1:58so catastrophic when people simply do
38. 2:01not care and we will not permit Humanity
39. 2:06to set up a pecking order where some
40. 2:08humans are not as significant or as
41. 2:12human as others we are all equal and in
42. 2:15those scenarios those who are vulnerable
43. 2:19need protection and it's our
44. 2:20responsibility to give it
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