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Major General Henry Kwami Anyidoho - A graduate of the US Marine Staff College in Virginia and the Ghana Military Academy, commissioned into the Ghanaian army’s Signal Corps in 1965. Since then he served in various capacities in Ghana’s armed forces, including a Commanding Officer of the Ghana Military Academy and Commander of the Northern Command of the Army, as well as numerous UN Peacekeeping Missions. During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, a Ghanaian contingent led by General Henry Anyidoho was deployed to serve in UNAMIR (United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda) under Canadian General Romeo Dallaire. Anyidoho, who had experience in peacekeeping missions in Lebanon, Cambodia, and Liberia served as General Dallaire’s Deputy Commander in addition to his role as head of the Ghanaian contingent. In Dallaire’s book, Shake Hands With the Devil, Anyidoho and his men are frequently singled out for praise for their courage and resourcefulness, and are given credit for sheltering thousands of Tutsis and Hutu moderates, saving them from certain death.〔(West African Troops in Peacekeeping ), Kevin Knodell, Africa's Annoying, Baby Blue Beret, April 18th 2009]〕 For twelve years Anyidoho was also the Chairman of Ghana Telecom Board of Directors. He has also contributed chapters to edited books on international peacekeeping and is the author of the book on his tenure in Rwanda: Guns Over Kigali .〔(Guns Over Kigali: the Rwandese civil war-1994: (a personal account) ), Henry Kwami Anyidoho, Woeli Publishing Services, 1997, ISBN 9964-978-16-2〕 He was decorated with the Distinguished Service Order for Gallantry.〔(A dialogue of the deaf: essays on Africa and the United Nations ), Adekeye Adebajo, Helen Scanlon, Njongonkulu Ndungane, University of Cape Town, Centre for Conflict Resolution, Jacana Media, 2006, ISBN 1-77009-263-3〕 == UN Peacekeeping Missions == * UNEF, Sinai; * UNIFIL, Lebanon - Chief Military Press and Information Officer; * ECOMOG, Liberia, 1990; * UNTAC, Cambodia; * UNAMIR, Rwanda, 1994 - Deputy Force Commander and Chief of Staff during Rwandan Genocide; * UNAMID, Darfur, since 2005 - Joint Deputy AU-UN Special Representative. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Kwami Anyidoho」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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