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Canadian generals to testify at UN probe

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    Two Canadian generals, who headed the UN defence team and the UN peacekeeping force during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, will appear before a UN inquiry probing the organisation’s response to the events. Chief of Defence Staff General Maurice Baril and Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire, who headed the force, will give evidence “behind close doors” in New York, the ‘Toronto Star’ reported on Monday. Dallaire reportedly faxed messages to New York months before the massacres started, warning of the onslaught and describing his plans to intervene, the paper reported.

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