My new hero is a Canadian soldier (transcribed 1600 words The Donor)

[ritaxis]

His name is Romeo. Romeo Dallaire. The BBC World Service had an interview with him today -- he was the UN general in RWanda who refused to retreat and stayed, instead, unsupported, trying to save lives. He has very clear ideas about what the UN should be doing, what developed countries should be doing, and what he should be doing. He takes his share of responsibility for Rwanda, then and now. He has gone back to Rwanda and is going back again to live and be of use.

I tried to find a link to the program but the BBC search engine is really weird. It returns links which purport to be the Dallaire interview or other pieces with Dallaire in them, but they are not -- instead they are links to the front page for the show in question and there is no link to an archive. I sent a whiny email, we'll see what that does -- maybe there's a hidden way to access the programs.

I think my Good Bureaucrat is cut from the same cloth as Romeo Dallaire.

Speaking of which, I can really see the light at the end of the tunnel -- I'm at almost 80K words, which is about as long as I thought it was going to be, and I think I have maybe 5-7K left to write. I may want to alter one of the vignettes a whole lot, or even remove it, I don't know. Also I finished transcribing Chapter 3 of The Donor which means I will be putting it online tomorrow morning.

edited: well, that was interesting. Somehow I had put in a link to the Periodic Table of Dessert instead of Romeo Dallaire.

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

I tried using google directly [dallaire bbc interview] and the first link may be the one you're looking for.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/peter-raymont.shtml

http://action.web.ca/home/cpcc/attach/dallaire.php.html

http://www.therevealer.org/archives/daily_000376.php

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Those are all good, but they aren't the interview I was trying to find, that was playing on BBC World Service.

This is not the first time that I've tried to find something on World Service that I was supposed to be able to listen to again or read the transcript of or find supplementary material on. I can't, come to think of it, remember any time when I was successful.