We all live to be remembered and Captain Mbaye Diagne will be remembered as a good man, RIP. Often called the Forgotten Angel of Rwanda, Captain Mbaye Diagne was a Senegalese officer on a UNAMIR peacekeeping mission in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. In the face of ruthless, murderous, machete-wielding militia, Mbaye emerged as a one-man army of charm and cunning. After the brutal assassination of Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana, her husband, and their Belgian bodyguards, Captain Diagne sneaked into the house and saved their four children. He took them into the neighbouring UNDP-owned compound. When official UN assistance to ferry the kids out of the danger zone failed to come, Mbaye went full badass. He covered the children with a blanket and drove them all the way back to Hotel des Mille Collines in Kigali, through tens of roadblocks where death was only one swing of a panga away. After that, the 36-year old launched a solo mission to rescue hundreds of Tutsis and moderate Hutus from the militia.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 02:50:32 +0000
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