Days of Remembrance: Progress report with Roméo Dallaire

In commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum designated Stories of Freedom: What You Do Matters as the theme for Days of Remembrance 2010. Among the events the Museum held was an interview by Michael Abramowitz, Director of the Committee on Conscience at the Museum, with General Roméo Dallaire, former commander of the UN peacekeeping force in Rwanda during the genocide in 1994. General Dallaire spoke about his experiences in Rwanda 16 years ago and the importance of increasing the will and capacity in government to respond to genocide today.

Here are some highlights from that evening:



Read the full event transcript.

Watch eyewitness testimony from General Dallaire that is featured in From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide.