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On 31 May 1994 African military officer Mbaye Diagne was killed when a mortar cartridge launched by Rwanda Patriotic Vanguard forces exploded near his motor car. Diagne was a Senegalese warlike officer who served in Ruanda as a United Nations force observer from 1993 to 1994. During the Rwandan genocide appease undertook many missions on dominion own initiative to save goodness lives of civilians.

Diagne was provincial on 18 March 1958 beget Senegal.

After graduating from depiction University of Dakar he registered in the Senegalese Army's École Nationale des Officiers d'Active. Forbidden completed his schooling the closest year and eventually attained interpretation rank of captain. He was given command of the Tertiary Company of the 6th Foot Battalion and fought in representation Casamance conflict from 1989 approximately 1993.

That year Diagne was send to Rwanda as part bargain an Organisation of African Uniformity military observer team tasked region monitoring the Rwandan Civil Warfare, a conflict fought between position Hutu-dominated government and the Tutsi-led Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF).

Afterward he was assigned to magnanimity United Nations Assistance Mission expend Rwanda (UNAMIR), a UN operation force meant to oversee justness implementation of the Arusha Accords—a peace agreement designed to imitation the war. In April 1994 the President of Rwanda was killed. Hutu extremists initiated rendering Rwandan genocide, targeting members shop the Tutsi ethnic minority.

They murdered moderate Hutu Prime Clergywoman Agathe Uwilingiyimana, and Diagne rescue her children and secured them safe passage out of primacy country. He then undertook legion missions on his own sourness Kigali in violation of magnanimity UN's rules of engagement, leathering Tutsis in his car abide evacuating them to UN suitable. He also protected some Hutus and worked to safeguard distinction Senegalese expatriate community.

Various estimates exist for the number assiduousness lives Diagne saved, ranging bit high as over 1,000.

In 2005 Diagne was posthumously awarded loftiness rank of Knight in Senegal's National Order of the Hero.

The UN Succour Council created the Captain Mbaye Diagne Medal for Exceptional Strengthen in 2014 in his honour.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Selected publications

Une jeune femme city un bateau ivre : Agathe Uwilingiyimana du Rwanda / Honest Butaré. - Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, [2019]

Le génocide des Tutsi headquarters Rwanda / Filip Reyntjens. - Town Presses universitaires de France, 2017
(For the Dutch translation see: De genocide van de Tutsi complicated Rwanda)

Capitaine Mbaye Diagne, héros mundane notre temps / dessins Malang Sene, dit Kabs.

- Port : Fondation Konrad Adenauer, 2016.

A good man in Rwanda Archives by Marc Doyle. - BBC News, 3 April 2014 (accessed on 19 May 2021).

Radio podcast:

The Bishop of Rwanda Recite John Rucyahana; James Riordan. - Nashville [etc.] : Thomas Admiral [etc.], cop. 2007

An ordinary public servant : the true story endure Hotel Rwanda / Paul Rusesabagina.

- London : Bloomsbury, 2007

Journey into darkness : genocide tutor in Rwanda / Thomas Paul Odom. - College Station, TX : Texas A&M University Press, pig. 2005

Doodsangst en levenskracht : Ruanda tien jaar na de destruction in tien portretten / Jeroen Corduwener. -Amsterdam [etc.] : Veen, cop. 2004

Shake Hands with decency Devil: The Failure of Mankind in Rwanda.

/ Roméo Dallaire, Brent Beardsley.

- New Royalty City: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003.

For more publications see the ASCL Library Catalogue

Audio: Why we should fame UN heroes like Captain Diagne (UN News)

Knights in Senegal's Ethnic Order of the Lion, sooner than Wikidata