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    Combat Medic: An Eyewitness of The Kibeho Massacre (2010) Paperback Book

    Combat Medic: An Eyewitness of The Kibeho Massacre (2010) Paperback Book

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    On the 22nd of April 1995 more than 4,000 Rwandans were massacred and thousands more injured in a place called Kibeho. Terry Pickard, a seasoned soldier and medic, was one of a 32-strong force of UN peacekeepers in Kibeho on that terrible Saturday. While the United Nations’ presence prevented the death toll from being even worse than it was, the massacre continues to haunt him.The rules of engagement that stopped him fromintervening in the senseless slaughter and the life anddeath decisions he was forced to make when dealingwith the injured condemned him to more than a decade of recurring nightmares and debilitating flashbacks.The horror and unimaginable tragedy of the KibehoMassacre still looms large in the lives of Rwandans andthe people sent to help the African country. No one who walked away from that day was ever the same again.Combat Medic is a personal account of one soldier who found himself at the centre of events thatshocked the world, and the personal toll that he paid.Terry Pickard’s army career spanned nearly 20 years.More than 15 years after Rwanda he continues tostruggle with post traumatic stress triggered by hisexperiences.In 2005 those who served in Rwanda and the UNpeacekeeping mission were informed that their servicehad been upgraded to “warlike’’. Very few of them hadever doubted it.