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Captain Mbaye Diange

Captain Mbaye Diagne (?-31 May 1994) was a Senegalese Army officer and a United Nations military observer during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. He is credited with saving many lives during his time in Rwanda through nearly continuous rescue missions at great peril to himself.

A devout Muslim, Mbaye was one of nine children born to a family living near Dakar, and the first to go to college. Following his graduation from the University of Dakar, he joined the army as an officer.[1] In 1993 he was seconded to UNAMIR, the United Nations peacekeeping force sent to Rwanda as a military observer of the implementation of the Arusha Accords.[2] He was stationed at the Hôtel des Mille Collines, a luxury hotel located in Kigali.[citation needed]

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Comment by Paul Murphy on February 2, 2013 at 5:07pm

Comment by Paul Murphy on February 2, 2013 at 11:48am: I wanted to recognize the courage of Captain Mbay Diang of Senagal.A member of a depleted U.N. Peace Keeping force in Rwanda(450) as well as the countless other peace keepers that tried to protect innocent people,while the Global Leaders were unable ,or unwilling to take actions.

On 31 May, Capt. Mbaye was driving alone, back to U.N. headquarters in Kigali with a message for Dallaire from Augustin Bizimungu when a mortar shell landed behind his Jeep. Shrapnel entered through the back window and hit Mbaye in the back of the head, killing him instantly. The mortar had been fired by Rwandan Patriotic Front forces at a Rwandan Armed Forces checkpoint.^[5]

The Head of the U.N. Humanitarian Assistance Team realized that the U.N. did not have a body bag and was forced to make one from a light blue UNICEF tarp and tape:

you wanna do it right. You want to … zip it, [but] you got this UN light-blue body bag, and we're going to make and fold the edges over. And we're folding them up, and the creases aren't right, because his feet are so damn big. … And you don't want that for him. You want it to be like, you know, just laid out perfectly. So that when people look at him, they know that he was something great.^[4]

"Thank you far taking a moment to know Captain Mbay Diang .His efforts and courage in the face of evil genocide needs to be remembered."