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Lieutenant General (Retired) Romeo Dallaire will deliver the 2001/02
Visiting Lectureship in Human Rights on Monday, March 25, 2002, 7:30
p.m., at the Horowitz Theatre. (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta)
Tickets are $10 and are on sale now through Ticketmaster.
(www.ticketmaster.ca)
General Dallaire commanded a small UN peacekeeping force in Rwanda when
extremist Hutus in the Kigali government launched an orchestrated
massacre of Tutsis in April 1994. Despite Dallaire‘s request for a
broader UN mandate in Rwanda and more troops, neither was provided. An
estimated 800,000 Rwandans, mostly Tutsis but also some moderate Hutus,
were killed in a three-month period.
In September 2001, General Dallaire was appointed Special Advisor on war
affected children to Canada‘s Minister for International Cooperation.
The University of Alberta Visiting Lectureship in Human Rights is an
annual event providing an opportunity to enhance understanding of
complex human rights issues and to support and nurture our continued
interest and involvement in promoting and protecting human rights issues
at home and abroad.
For more information: www.ualberta.ca/~lecture.
Visiting Lectureship in Human Rights on Monday, March 25, 2002, 7:30
p.m., at the Horowitz Theatre. (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta)
Tickets are $10 and are on sale now through Ticketmaster.
(www.ticketmaster.ca)
General Dallaire commanded a small UN peacekeeping force in Rwanda when
extremist Hutus in the Kigali government launched an orchestrated
massacre of Tutsis in April 1994. Despite Dallaire‘s request for a
broader UN mandate in Rwanda and more troops, neither was provided. An
estimated 800,000 Rwandans, mostly Tutsis but also some moderate Hutus,
were killed in a three-month period.
In September 2001, General Dallaire was appointed Special Advisor on war
affected children to Canada‘s Minister for International Cooperation.
The University of Alberta Visiting Lectureship in Human Rights is an
annual event providing an opportunity to enhance understanding of
complex human rights issues and to support and nurture our continued
interest and involvement in promoting and protecting human rights issues
at home and abroad.
For more information: www.ualberta.ca/~lecture.
