This interview is about Captain Mbaye Diagne. Mark Doyle, as a BBC World Service journalist, knew Captain Mbaye Diagne during the Rwandan Genocide.
Mark Doyle knew Captain Mbaye Diagne well in this case. He was one of the people who really worked and lived with Captain Mbaye, who actually supported him and care about him. Though Mark considered himself as one of Captain Mbaye’s friends, he didn’t know Captain Mbaye’s saving mission. The mission was called “the secret saving mission” for a reason.
Though Doyle wasn’t sure what Captain Diagne was doing exactly, he had heard some rumors too, and through what he has been through with Captain Diagne, he told the journalist what Captain Diagne was capable of. Through little jokes he could ease the tension between e and the Hutu killers at the checkpoints.
His calm and intelligence was precious during the time, plus his own sense of humor, he was able to go through dozens of checkpoints for hundreds and thousands of time while carrying Tutsis in his car.
He was just a normal soldier, who wanted to do something for the Tutsi people who were being killed, instead of standing there watching them being killed, pretending to be one of the “PEACE”keepers the U.N. sent. What’s the purpose of sending peacekeepers to Rwanda during the genocide while ordering them to stay neutral, not to attack anyone, and keeping them UNARMED? What’s the purpose of sending peacekeepers if they are not even able to keep peace without disobeying the headquarters’ orders?
Captain Mbaye Diagne was the real peacekeeper there, the one who really tried and did everything he could to do his job, to keep the peace there as much as he could in Rwanda.
[1] The Man Everyone Remembers: By Greg Barker, the producer of "Ghosts of Rwanda”, http://www.cafeafricana.com/Capt.%20Mbaye%20Diagne.html, May 5th, 2011
[2] The Man Everyone Remembers: By Greg Barker, the producer of "Ghosts of Rwanda”, http://www.cafeafricana.com/Capt.%20Mbaye%20Diagne.html, May 5th, 2011
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