Australian PeaceKeeper Magazine - Summer Edition '10
Book Reviews Section
Kevin "Irish" O'Halloran, in his debut book "Pure massacre" offers a scathing view of The United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR I1). O'Halloran was the Infantry Platoon Sergeant that provided protection for the Australian Contingent in 1995.
DUTY FIRST - VOLUME 10, NUMBER 2 - 01 Aug'10
Book Reviews
PURE Massacre is a story that needed to be told about experiences that few who did not serve in Rwanda will ever comprehend. Still serving in the regular army as a WO1, the author Kevin "Irish" O'Halloran was the Platoon Sergeant of 4 Platoon, Bravo Company 2RAR on the second and final rotation of the Australian Contingent to the United Nations Mission in Rwanda as part of the ADF's Operation Tamar.
The Top Ender Tri-Services Magazine Incorporated - 01 Aug'10
Book Giveaway
Fifteen years ago, on 22 April 1995, at a displaced persons' camp in Kibeho, in full view of Australian UN peacekeepers, over 4,000 unarmed men, women and children died in a hail of bullets, grenades and machete blades at the hands of the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA). Constrained by the UN peacekeeping Rules of Engagement, these Australians could only watch as atrocities they’d never imagined where carried out in front of them knowing that they could not - would not - interfere with these brutal acts.
Kevin "Irish" O'Halloran, in his debut book "Pure massacre" offers a scathing view of The United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR I1). O'Halloran was the Infantry Platoon Sergeant that provided protection for the Australian Contingent in 1995. He examines the history of the UN and what Australia‟s involvement was in Rwanda.
Sunday Telegraph (Sydney) - 28 March '10 Agenda - Unwilling witnesses to an act of genocide
A new book has laid bare the deep psychological wounds caused to the Diggers who watched, powerless to act, as the horror of the Rwandan conflict unfolded in front of them.
Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne) - 28 March '10 General News - Ghosts from a GENOCIDE
A new book has laid bare the deep wounds and trauma suffered by Aussie Diggers who watched, unable to help, as the Rwandan genocide unfolded in front of them, reports Bryan Patterson.
Sunday Mail (Brisbane) - 28 March '10 Agenda - HAUNTED BY GENOCIDE
ON April 22, 1995 - nearly 15 years ago - a group of Australian soldiers watched in horror as more than 4000 unarmed men, women and children were slaughtered by machetes, guns and grenades right in front of their eyes.
Illawarra Mercury - 27 March '10 Weekender - Scars of Rwanda
Sometimes wars never end. On the 15th anniversary of an Australian mission to Rwanda, WILLIAM VERITY spoke to a former military medic who is still living with the aftermath of genocide, when one million people died in 100 days.
Launceston Examiner - 27 March '10 General News - Aussies experience the KILLING FIELDS
ON April 22, 1995, at a displaced persons camp at Kibeho, Rwanda, Australian UN peacekeepers had to look on as 4000 unarmed men, women and children were slaughtered with bullets, grenades and machetes by the Rwandan Patriotic Army.
