Reliving Rwandan Horrors in the DR Congo

The Canadian head of the country's UN demobilization program says rebel forces are pushing peacekeepers the way they did in 1994.

By Michelle Collins

Published January 14, 2009

It was like déjà vu for Canadian Philip Lancaster.

More than a decade after watching helplessly as disaster unfolded in Rwanda, as then-executive assistant to Gen. Roméo Dallaire, the ex-army officer was again surrounded by horror, this time in the depths of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

As head of the UN's demobilization program in the DRC from October 2007 to October...

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