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 news: Senator Romeo Dallaire will be retiring (e: in part due to ongoing PTSD)You may remember him as the Force Commander for UNAMIR - UN's peacekeeping mission in Rwanda. He found himself in the middle of not only a genocide but a civil war, receiving no support and being cock-blocked at every turn in every attempt to control the situation. He wrote Shake Hands with the Devil as a memoir of it and this longish article today is a pretty good summary. http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/profile-romeo-dallaires-peacekeeping-nightmare I remember on one occasion he unloaded his sidearm and gave his ammo to his aide before a meeting, because he couldn't trust himself to not just plug everyone at the table. He was tempted more than once in this way. It had it all. Horrible bureaucracy, accountant nickle-and-diming (why the gently caress is the fax machine not working? Accountant disabled it because it costs too much), shitbags sabotaging their own vehicles - they only had a few working ones - so they wouldn't have to leave base, expired MREs for three meals a day (and when the got to the German ones they stank to high heaven), and so on. The Eyes Have It fucked around with this message at 18:20 on May 28, 2014 |
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