Mbaye Diagne’s death was heartbreaking to many people. In this video you can clearly see how much respect people had for Capt. Diagne. This was a many who gave his life just to save people he didn’t even know from being slaughtered. One can truly see from Daillare and Doyle’s interviews that this was a true hero. His death was a tragedy to all of his colleagues. As Doyle quoted from another U.N. peacekeeper: “‘You’re a journalist, I’m a soldier, now you’ve got to tell the world what Mbaye Diagne did.’”. His death had a great impact on the people he saved, the journalists he talked to, and all of his friends from the U.N. peacekeeping mission. Before watching Ghosts of Rwanda I had never really known much about the genocide. After watching the horrors that occurred a year before I was born astounded me. I could never imagine such a terrible thing happening. Yet it did. There have been many genocides throughout the world’s history such as the Rape of Nanking or the Holocaust. This video was really interesting to watch because it gave some light during this genocide. This part of Ghosts of Rwanda focuses primarily on one of the great heroes of the genocide. It’s amazing to view people’s views on this man, Mbaye Diagne. I think it’s just truly outstanding that one man could do so much and be so brave in a situation like that.
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Captain Mbaye Diagne was a brave man, this video clearly shows what an inspiration he truly was. The hundreds of lives he saved showed a glimpse of hope to the Rwandan people when many were loosing just that, hope. I am so glad that that journalist has spread the story of this amazing man. And i find it sad how so many people respected him and looked up to him and yet they couldn't find a body bag that fit the standards of what this man has done for his people. May Captain Mbaye Diagne live on through the hundreds of innocent Tutsis he saved from the brutality of the genocide of 1994.
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