Dallaire, Rom?o

Discusses the use of child soldiers in the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 and in other conflicts around the world, describes how a child soldier is made and how they can be unmade, and offers suggestions to put an end to the use of child soldiers in war.

Romeo Dallaire was the force commander of the UN Assistance Mission to Rwanda in 1993-1994. His small peacekeeping force found themselves abandoned by the world's major powers and caught up in civil war and genocide. He and his forces managed to rescue thousands but his calls for support went unanswered and he still witnessed the murder of 800,000 Rwandans in one hundred days. He is the highest ranking military officer ever to suffer openly with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). He is currently a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.