Joseph Gérard Maurice Baril, CD (September 22, 1943-) was a General in the Canadian Armed Forces, a Military Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General & head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations from 1992 to 1997, and Chief of the Defence Staff in Canada from 1997 to 2001. Image File history File links Maurice_Baril. ... Canadian Forces Decoration The Canadian Forces Decoration is a Canadian military award given to officers and soldiers of the Canadian Armed Forces who have completed twelve years of military service. ... Jump to: navigation, search September 22 is the 265th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (266th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... Jump to: navigation, search General is a high military rank, used by nearly every country in the world. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Canadian Forces (CF) (Fr: Forces canadiennes (FC)) are the combined branches of the military of Canada. ... Jump to: navigation, search The United Nations Secretary-General is the head of the Secretariat, one of the principal divisions of the United Nations. ... Jump to: navigation, search The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) is the senior member of the Canadian Forces and reports directly to the Minister of National Defence. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

He was born in Saint-Albert-de-Warwick, Quebec in 1943 and studied at the University of Ottawa from 1961 to 1964, becoming an officer in the Canadian Armed Forces in 1963. The first European explorer of what is now Quebec was Jacques Cartier, who planted a cross either in the Gaspé in 1534 or at Old Fort Bay on the Lower North Shore and sailed into the St. ... Jump to: navigation, search Tabaret Hall At left, Morisset Library. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search The Canadian Forces (CF) (Fr: Forces canadiennes (FC)) are the combined branches of the military of Canada. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

From 1968 to 1971, he served with the Canadian Airborne Regiment in Valcartier, Quebec and Edmonton, Alberta. He commanded land forces in Cyprus and Lahr, Germany, served at Department of National Defence headquarters in Ottawa and as Commander of the Combat Training Centre at CFB Gagetown. Jump to: navigation, search 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... The Canadian Airborne Regiment was a Canadian Forces formation created on April 8, 1968. ... Canadian Forces Base Valcartier is located 25 km west of Quebec City. ... Jump to: navigation, search {{Hide = {{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: {{Unhide = {{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Industry Integrity Progress City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada location. ... Lahr is a city in southern Germany between Freiburg and Strasbourg in the Rhine river valley, at 48 deg, 21 min N, 7 deg, 52 min E. Lahr is the birthplace of Felix Wankel, inventor of the Wankel rotary combustion engine. ... The Department of National Defence, frequently referred to by its acronym DND, is the department within the government of Canada with responsibility for Canadas military, the Canadian Armed Forces. ... Jump to: navigation, search {{Hide = {{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: {{Unhide = {{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Advance Ottawa/Ottawa en avant City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada location. ... Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, also referred to as CFB Gagetown, is a large Canadian Forces Base located in southwestern New Brunswick. ...

He was appointed head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) at the UN in June 1992. In January 1994, the DPKO received a message sent directly to Baril by (then) Major-General Romeo Dallaire, force commander of UN peacekeeping forces in Rwanda. The message, based on an informant's confession, and breaking usual UN protocol as it was sent directly to the DPKO as opposed to being routed through the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the UN, warned of increasing militia activity and presence of several arms caches in Rwanda's capital, Kigali. When the Rwandan Genocide broke out in April 1994 and Belgian peacekeepers, as well as the Prime Minister of the interim government, Agathe Uwilingiyimana was killed, the UN Security Council voted for a drastic reduction in the size of the peacekeeping forces. This culminated the slaughter of an estimated 937,000 Tutsis and Hutu moderates by Hutu extremist militia- and government forces in Rwanda. Baril was also accused of mishandling the refugee crisis in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1997. Jump to: navigation, search 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Romeo Dallaire Roméo A. Dallaire (born June 25, 1946 in Denekamp, The Netherlands) is a Canadian general, humanitarian, and author. ... Jump to: navigation, search Kigali, population 330,000 (1997), is the capital city of Rwanda and its largest city, lying in the centre of the nation. ... Jump to: navigation, search The skulls of victims show gashes and signs of violence The Rwandan Genocide was the slaughter of an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus by a group of Hutu extremists known as Interahamwe during a period of 100 days in 1994. ... Agathe Uwilingiyimana (1953 - 7 April 1994) was a Rwandan political figure. ... A session of the Security Council in progress The United Nations Security Council is the most powerful organ of the United Nations. ... See also The Watusi, a dance, and Watusi (band). ... Hutu is the name given to one of the three ethnic groups occupying Burundi and Rwanda. ...

In September 1997, Baril was appointed Chief of the Defence Staff by Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. He retired from the Canadian Forces on July 18 2001. The Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) is the senior member of the Canadian Forces and reports directly to the Minister of National Defence. ... The Prime Minister of Canada, the head of the Canadian government, is usually the leader of the political party with the most seats in the Canadian House of Commons. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Right Honourable Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien, PC, QC, BA, LL.L, LL.D (born January 11, 1934) was the twentieth Prime Minister of Canada, serving from November 4, 1993, to December 12, 2003. ...

In 2002, he led the Canadian board of inquiry into the "friendly fire" incident on April 17, 2002 near Kandahar, Afghanistan. Friendly fire or non-hostile fire is United States military parlance for fire from friendly forces, as opposed to fire coming from enemy forces, which is known as enemy fire. In a friendly fire incident, forces or material assets of one side are attacked and damaged in error by those... Afghanistan timeline April 17, 2002 Two U.S. pilots, Majors Harry Schmidt and William Umbach, returning from a 10-hour patrol, at more than 15,000 feet, spotted surface-to-air fire and feared it was from Taliban forces. ... Jump to: navigation, search Kandahār (or Qandahār) is a city in southern Afghanistan, the capital of Kandahar province. ...

Currently, Mr. Maurice Baril is the Chairman for the Board Of Directors for CATSA (Canadian Air Transport Security Authority). CATSA stands for the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority, a federal security sceening organization officially formed January 1, 2003 Through The Canadain Ministry Of Transport following the September_11_terrorist_attacks. ...