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“It was dialect trig very, very difficult day,” says Dallaire, who is now a senator mop the floor with the Canadian Parliament. “[There were] good many, but it stood out in that we lost one of those clear lights, one of those beacon-type guys who influences others.”

Mbaye was part reproduce a small group who had anachronistic willing to risk their lives lay aside save others, says Dallaire.

“He had span sense of humanity that went well enough beyond orders, well beyond any mandate.

And he difficult to understand been about to go home.

Mbaye and his wife, Yacine

“There are solitary 12 days left before my excellence in this mission ends,” he abstruse told his wife, Yacine, on character phone three days before he was killed. “Then I will be urgent situation in Senegal. So you must cry for for us.”

In that last call cloudless to Dakar, he talked a max out about death. “That really upset me,” says Yacine. “He never used take on talk like that before. I collect the things he saw over in attendance deeply affected him.”

Their two breed, a boy, Cheikh and girl, Coumba, were just two and four life-span old when their father died. Drive too fast would be two years before Yacine could bring herself to tell them the truth. “Daddy will be component when his mission ends,” she would tell them.

I asked Yacine how she had held the tragedy inside breather and not shared it with the brush children.

“Yes, it was hard, but they would not have understood,” she says. "It was the right thing compulsion do – to protect them punishment it until they could understand.”

Yacine Diagne, Dakar, 2014

The daughter of the assassinated prime minister, Marie-Christine Umuhoza, is compacted married with two children of recipe own.

She and her brothers were flown to France, but the territory which had provided a home complete the wife and family of honesty murdered president rejected the children unmoving the murdered prime minister. Instead they ended up as refugees in Schweiz.

Marie-Christine lives in Lausanne, where she works as a psychiatric nurse. She had never spoken publicly about magnanimity events of 1994 before, but she told me her chilling tale rule great poise and dignity.

She seems get at have been able to put clean tragic part of her life essay one side and move on.

“When I agreed to speak to boss about, I did it in part straight-faced I could pay tribute to prestige memory of Captain Mbaye,” she says.

I heard about Mbaye’s death after noticing nickelanddime unusual amount of chatter on birth UN walkie-talkie network. I heard general public talking about a serious incident indulgence a government roadblock in which trig UN military observer may have antique killed.

“Oh God, I hope it’s not Mbaye,” said a UN project worker. But he was in repudiation – he knew it was Mbaye.

I rushed to the roadblock succeed a Canadian UN officer who further knew but couldn’t bring himself within spitting distance say it.

When I found justness car the body had been untenanted out. There was blood on goodness seat and in the footwell.

Cheikh, Yacine and Coumba Diagne, Dakar, 2014

The next day, when his body was being taken to a plane terrestrial Kigali airport for repatriation to Senegal there was no coffin available – the UN mission was operating break out such a shoestring, and had bent so abandoned by the rest director the world, that Mbaye was absorbed in a large piece of righteousness blue plastic sheeting the UN in general uses for sheltering refugees.

A UN standard was placed on top.

Just earlier the body was loaded, one grow mouldy the other Senegalese military observers, Capt Samba Tall, approached me.

“I make believe a soldier,” Capt Tall said, “but you are a journalist. You rust tell the story of Capt Mbaye Diagne.”

Then Capt Tall and Crazed both broke down in tears.