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Article: Command responsibility: (Romeo) Dallaire's promotion draws fire.
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- Esprit de Corps
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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I see it was announced that Romeo Dallaire will be promoted to Lieutenant General and move into the position of Assistant Deputy Minister for Personnel. As the ADM Per, he will be responsible for personnel functions within the Department of National Defence, a job which impacts on all serving members through their training, careers and appointments, personnel services and administration. For those members who don't know Dallaire's past, I think an update is in order.
Former artillery officer Dallaire was the UN Force Commander in Rwanda in 1994, when the massacres happened. His performance there is controversial, mainly because of the manner that ten of his men ...