Mbaye diagne

Captain Mbaye Diagne was a Senegalese Army captain and a member of the UN observation team during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. In defiance of standing U.N. orders not to interfere, Mbaye single-handedly began saving hundreds of Tutsis from marauding Hutus. He rescued the children of the moderate Prime Minster Agathe Uwilingiyimana, after 25 well-armed Belgian and Ghanaian U.N. peacekeepers surrendered their weapons to Rwandan troops.

On May 31st, Capt. Mbaye was driving alone back to U.N. headquarters in Kigali when a random mortar shell, fired by the Rwandan Patriotic Front towards an extremist checkpoint, mistakenly landed next to his Jeep. He was killed instantly.