Australian Military History Series-1: Rwanda – UNAMIR 1994/95

O'Halloran, Kevin
ISBN: 9781921941481 Category:

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In 1994 a group of Australian UN peacekeepers, made up of soldiers and army medical personnel, was sent to Rwanda under a United Nations mandate to help restore order to the war-torn country. These Australians would be exposed to a lack of humanity they were not prepared for and found hard to fathom. On 22nd April 1995, the daily horror and tragedy they had witnessed escalated out of control. At a displaced persons’ camp in Kibeho, in full view of the Australian soldiers, over 4,000 unarmed men, women and children died in a hail of bullets, grenades and machete blades at the hands of the Rwandan Patriotic Army. Constrained by the UN peacekeeping Rules of Engagement, these Australians could only watch helplessly and try to assist the wounded under the gaze of the trigger-happy killers. Kevin Irish” O’Halloran

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AuthorO'Halloran, Kevin
Number of pages210
PublisherArmy History Unit, Big Sky Publishing
Year Published2012
Book Condition

As new.

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