Captain Mbaye Diagne (?-31 May 1994) was a Senegalese Army officer and a United Nations military observer during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. He is credited withsaving many lives during his time in Rwanda through nearly continuous rescue missions at great peril to himself.
A devout Muslim, Mbaye was one of nine children born to a family living near Dakar, and the first to go to college. Following his graduation from the University of Dakar, he joined the army as an officer.[1] In 1993 he was seconded to UNAMIR, the United Nations peacekeeping force sent to Rwanda as a military observer of the implementation of the Arusha Accords.[2] He was stationed at the Hôtel des Mille Collines, a luxury hotel located in Kigali.[
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Captain Mbaye Diagne (?-31 May 1994) was a Senegalese Army officer and a United Nations military observer during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. He is credited with saving many lives during his time in Rwanda through nearly continuous rescue missions at great peril to himself.
A devout Muslim, Mbaye was one of nine children born to a family living near Dakar, and the first to go to college. Following his graduation from the University of Dakar, he joined the army as an officer.[1] In 1993 he was seconded to UNAMIR, the United Nations peacekeeping force sent to Rwanda as a military observer of the implementation of the Arusha Accords.[2] He was stationed at the Hôtel des Mille Collines, a luxury hotel located in Kigali.
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Mbaye Diagne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He saved numberous lives including the lives of the PM of Rwanda's children, and countless hundreds of others.
Mbaye Diagne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However, sadly he was killed by a mortar shell on May 31st, 1994 and his death is marked by;
you wanna do it right. You want to … zip it, [but] you got this UN light-blue body bag, and we're going to make and fold the edges over. And we're folding them up, and the creases aren't right, because his feet are so damn big. … And you don't want that for him. You want it to be like, you know, just laid out perfectly. So that when people look at him, they know that he was something great
frontline: ghosts of rwanda: video: memories of captain mbaye diagne | PBS
As one of his fellow MILOBs said: "He was the bravest of all". The BBC's Mark Doyle who considered Diagne a friend, recently wrote to me, "Can you imagine the blanket media coverage that a dead British or American peacekeeper of Mbaye's bravery and stature would have received? He got almost none."[5]
Roméo Dallaire, Shake Hands With The Devil, Carroll & Graf: New York, 2003, ISBN 0-7867-1510-3, p. 268
A devout Muslim, Mbaye was one of nine children born to a family living near Dakar, and the first to go to college. Following his graduation from the University of Dakar, he joined the army as an officer.[1] In 1993 he was seconded to UNAMIR, the United Nations peacekeeping force sent to Rwanda as a military observer of the implementation of the Arusha Accords.[2] He was stationed at the Hôtel des Mille Collines, a luxury hotel located in Kigali.[
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Captain Mbaye Diagne (?-31 May 1994) was a Senegalese Army officer and a United Nations military observer during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. He is credited with saving many lives during his time in Rwanda through nearly continuous rescue missions at great peril to himself.
A devout Muslim, Mbaye was one of nine children born to a family living near Dakar, and the first to go to college. Following his graduation from the University of Dakar, he joined the army as an officer.[1] In 1993 he was seconded to UNAMIR, the United Nations peacekeeping force sent to Rwanda as a military observer of the implementation of the Arusha Accords.[2] He was stationed at the Hôtel des Mille Collines, a luxury hotel located in Kigali.
Wikipedia
Mbaye Diagne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He saved numberous lives including the lives of the PM of Rwanda's children, and countless hundreds of others.
Mbaye Diagne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However, sadly he was killed by a mortar shell on May 31st, 1994 and his death is marked by;
you wanna do it right. You want to … zip it, [but] you got this UN light-blue body bag, and we're going to make and fold the edges over. And we're folding them up, and the creases aren't right, because his feet are so damn big. … And you don't want that for him. You want it to be like, you know, just laid out perfectly. So that when people look at him, they know that he was something great
frontline: ghosts of rwanda: video: memories of captain mbaye diagne | PBS
As one of his fellow MILOBs said: "He was the bravest of all". The BBC's Mark Doyle who considered Diagne a friend, recently wrote to me, "Can you imagine the blanket media coverage that a dead British or American peacekeeper of Mbaye's bravery and stature would have received? He got almost none."[5]
Roméo Dallaire, Shake Hands With The Devil, Carroll & Graf: New York, 2003, ISBN 0-7867-1510-3, p. 268