Talk:Roméo Dallaire

message: Why is his role in the death of the ten Belgian paratroopers not mentioned in this article? In Belgium he is considered a coward bearing a huge responsibility of the Rwanda Genocide.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Old man peanut (talk • contribs) 12:58, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: This article should mention the trafic telegram the Dallaire sent the UN headquarters warning of the imminent genocide, and requesting permission to raid arms depots. Axeman89 21:01, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Tragic Telegram

message: After much digging, I've found the official rank abbreviations for Canadian Army.
:Perhaps this belongs on Canadian Armed Forces??? Cburnett 23:15, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Was meant for my edits on the main article page. Thanks. mu5ti/✏ 03:35, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Military Rank Abbreviations

message: What do the letters "OC" stand for after his name? This should be linked properly. Paradiso 05:18, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: He's probably a member of the Order of Canada. --Spinboy 05:23, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The article mentions that he was an Officer of the Order of Canada, so are we sure this is what OC stands for? Paradiso 05:27, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it's on the page for the Order of Canada. --Spinboy 05:32, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  OC 

message: What does the "A" in "Roméo A. Dallaire" stand for? LeoDV 15:45, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Somebody added "Alain"; do we have a reference for that?  A Google search for 'Roméo Alain Dallaire' turned up only the Wikipedia page. --Saforrest 18:16, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A 

message: It is with great admiration and respect that I write this note.  The humanity of General Dallaire and his troops humbles me.  God Bless.
4.36.254.76
:In a similar note, I'm quite ashamed that our government and troops chickened out. We had and and still have a moral obligation to protect the people of our formal colonies and have up till today failed to do so. Wouter Lievens 09:30, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  With great admiration 

message: Just a detail: general Dallaire's mother is consistently referred to, in his book as well as in this Wikipedia article, as Ms Catherine Vermeassen. There is no such name in Dutch. It should be corrected to 'Vermaesen', a surname referring to the (beautiful) river Maas. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 196.32.204.145 (talk • contribs) .
: Hmm, it looks like you're right.  Though every English source consistently gives "Vermeassen", there is this and also this, which gives her name as "Catherina Vermaesen" (the fully Dutch form). --Saforrest 03:45, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Should his book not be considered the authoritative source for the spelling though? My family name has an "alternative spelling" , so I know very well how easy it is to jump to the conclusion that "oh, this must be misspelled" - a near constant source of minor grief.  Observer31 23:57, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Dutch misspelling sounds wrong, its not a word. We absolutely should trust Dallaire's autobiography on this one, anything else is original research, SqueakBox 00:11, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gen. Dallaire's mother's name 

message: Wow. That's the most unwieldy list of abbreviations I've seen on any bio, royals included. Is there some precedent for listing all of a person's degrees, military ranks, and other miscellaneous honors in the first paragraph like that? I'd love to knock a few of them off (the bachelor's degree comes to mind), but if someone has a reason I shouldn't, speak now. djrobgordon 02:49, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just make sure you mention the honours later in the article, or they're already mentioned - but I agree, too unwieldy right now. Sherurcij (Speaker for the Dead)  03:58, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

text: True. What is the benefit of mentioning BS.c among the ranks and honors he received? Shall someone please remove it as it's redundant, IMO.--SimsimTee (talk) 16:55, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Introduction

message: If you read his book you would know! DUH!!!!!!!! [Recent changes patroler]Dell970 23:10, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Antonius, it has been corrected with a proper source. Sherurcij (speaker for the dead)  17:15, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  HIS MIDDLE NAME IS NOT  Alain! 

message: Needs to be tidied up, it is simply a chronology right now that reads like a bulletted list.Josh Hooch 17:00, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Life After Rwanda

message: Links for sources 8, 9 and 10 are present, but not included in the body of the text. They should probably either be deleted or incorporated properly into the body. It seems Mr. Dallaire is quite unpopular in Belgium, I'm not an expert, but perhaps that should be clarified?
--192.197.178.2 13:44, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Belgian Sources 

message: I saw sections about his portrayal in Hotel Rwanda and Shake Hand with the Devil; I expected something about A Sunday in Kigali. I know I heard or read something about it: he appears briefly in the movie, and I think the real Mr. Dallaire commented his portrayal in this film.
I will try to look it up, and also rewatch the movie soon.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mandragorae (talk • contribs) 06:28, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Sunday in Kigali 

message: This article is lacking a section outlining Dallaire's current pursuits surrounding the eradication of the use of child soldiers. His most recent book, They fight like soldiers, they die like children, is only briefly mentioned. Dallaire states in this book that eliminating children as instruments of war is the "ultimate focus of the rest of my life."  This is worthy of a section in an article outlining his life, is it not? In addition, only a brief mention of his work with the Child Soldiers Initiative appears here. I hope to have the time to address this myself, but some assistance would be appreciated ... CJMinf1001 (talk) 01:30, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Child Soldiers 

message: I wonder why the criticism section was removed by 184.146.110.252 on 15 Nov 2011. Mr Dallaire's responsibility in the murder of the ten Belgian paratroopers (see http://www.senate.be/english/rwanda.html#4.11) is completely ignored by this article.--91.181.208.176 (talk) 12:45, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  criticism section 

message: I think that Life after Rwanda needs to be merged with Appointment to Canadian Senate section. We have many doubled information there. I'm not editing, since I'm not native English. PuchaczTrado (talk) 06:47, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Life after Rwanda 

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message: I'm moving this section to talk for the time being. I'm not entirely sure its encyclopedic. It's seems an awful lot like WP:TRIVIA, but its certainly not sourced to anything at this point. Maybe if we can get some citations there is a way this can be rewritten to be appropriate. TimothyJosephWood 19:16, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Song 

message: A comprehensive list of books with Forewords written by Romeo Dallaire was removed.  Why?JDHumphreys (talk) 16:19, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why were book titles removed? 

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message: As a reader of Dallaire, I was interested to see his additional published works; found the back history of additions and removals of forwards and contributions, seemed in partly related to the COI from JDHumphreys. The section on books had a dead external reference and no archive exists and the wikipedia page on the RBC Taylor award does not list Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD  as one of the nominations, although original cited article on CBC was titled "Roméo Dallaire on the longlist for 2017 RBC Taylor Prize".  
Anyway, the old list that was removed in 2017 had 19, and more exist now. I have added a new subsection for Contributions, with a small selection of 8 titles based on a qualitative filter of most-reviewed, and sorted by date.Tomacpace (talk) 18:56, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contributions section added