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Lt.-Gen. Roméo Dallaire

- He spent 37 years in the military before retiring in 2000

- He served as the commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission during the Rwandan genocide in 1994

- Dallaire, along with a few others, disobeyed the command to withdraw and remained in Rwanda to protect those who had sought refuge with the UN forces

- He’s been public with his diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder

- He was appointed to the Senate as a Liberal in 2005 by former prime minister Paul Martin and resigned from the position in 2014