• Awarded on: July 26, 1995

As a team member in the Humanitarian Cell of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda during the civil war in 1994, Captain Demers participated in all the evacuation missions in the sectors occupied by the Rwandan government military forces. He was personally threatened on several occasions, often by inebriated soldiers, but he persisted in his negotiations. On 26 June 1994, although he was trapped in a Red Cross Hospital for four hours under mortar attack and machine-gun and small-arms fire, he continued to provide aid and comfort to two hundred Tutsis displaced by the war. His effective actions during his tour of duty in Rwanda resulted in the transfer of thousands of displaced persons.