Lewis MacKenzie (born 30 April 1940) was a General in the Canadian Army and the commander of the United Nations forces in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War.
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Lewis MacKenzie was born in Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1940, and he entered the Canadian Army in 1960. He served on United Nations peacekeeping missions in the Gaza Strip, Cyprus, Vietnam, Egypt, Central America, and the former Yugoslavia, commanding the UN forces in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. He became an international celebrity for using the media to keep the peace, but he returned from the Balkans in October 1992 in controversial circumstances, retiring from the military in March 1993. In 1997, he ran for a House of Commons seat from Parry Sound-Muskoka as a Progressive Conservative Party of Canada member, placing second.