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shake hands with the devil

In 100 days – between April 6 and July 16, 1994 – more than 800,000 men,
women and children were brutally murdered in the obscure African country of
Rwanda. The victims – many horrifically hacked to death with machetes – were
Tutsi and moderate Hutus who supported them.

One man had been tasked by the United Nations with ensuring peace was
maintained in Rwanda – Canadian Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire. But,

thrown into a country he barely understood, leading ill-equipped, untrained
troops who did not want to be there and unsupported by U.N. headquarters and Definition Episodes
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its Security Council far away in New York, Dallaire and his handful of soldiers were Producer YOP
incapable of stopping the genocide. White Pine Pictures 2007

After nine years of mental torture, reliving the horrors daily and more than once
attempting suicide, Roméo Dallaire has told his story of what happened in
Rwanda. Shake Hands with the Devil is also an extraordinary book – a cri de
Coeur. The General pulls no punches in his condemnation of top UN...