Shake Hands with the Devil

The feature film Shake Hands with the Devil, based on Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire's award-winning book, is directed by Roger Spottiswoode, and stars the highly-esteemed actor Roy Dupuis as Dallaire. Deborah Kara Unger portrays one of the few journalists who remained in Rwanda after the genocide began. The cast also includes Jean-Hugues Anglade as Bernard Kouchner, a founder of Médecins Sans Frontières. James Gallanders, Michel Mongeau and Owen Lebakeng Sejake play the courageous officers who stood with Dallaire, and Odile Katesi Gakire plays the Rwandan Prime Minister of the Peace Government. A dramatization from Oscar®-winning Producer Michael Donovan and multi-award-winning Producer Laszlo Barna, Shake Hands with the Devil was filmed in Rwanda using many of the actual locations described in the book. In theaters Sept 28.

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Film & Animation

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• Dallaire
• Rwanda
• Dupuis
• film
• genocide

[Aetheilas]

Romeo Dallaire makes me proud to be a human being, proving that it is ultimately up to us, the common citizen, to save the world. He and 450 soldiers saved the lives of tens of thousands of innocents, imagine what we could do if all of Canada went to Rwanda to save the victims?

Romeo Dallaire is the truest Canadian hero, symbolizing our national identity in peacemaking, the human spirit, and victory in hopelessness.

[hulead]

It was glaringly obvious in 1994 for anyone who tuned into CNN, CBS CBC or BBC that there was a genocide taking place.....and.. what did we (i.e Canada, US Britain France etc) do NOTHING!!!!! Why? cause they were all BLACK that is why!!!!. If the 1994 genocide happened in a "white" country such as Germany, Holland, Norway or Canada the US NATO and the entire world would have done something.

[charliesunnyboy]

We the UN stood and watched while a genocide took place, shame on us.

[OBSysteme]

@hulead When White communities fight among themselves... we glorify it by calling it a civil war.

When black, sometime very different and with distinc languages and cultures (like Europe) have conflicts, We dessecrate their problems by calling it "tribal conflict"., that has no logic....

Such is the lens through which the west sees the world... with ignorance and lack of interest about the true origins of the other conflicts... ... just tribes hating each other? really?

[OBSysteme]

@Aetheilas Yes, Romeo is a powerfull simbol of what Canada could be in the world, but in truth, Canada has a bad performance in Africa.. we are barely present ever since some of our worst soldiers did torture in somalia.... there are so few Canadian Ambassies in Africa, its a joke....

Africa would have been a nice opportunity to change millions of lives.... instead, Canada has decided to be the bulldog of NATO and the USA for oil missions in the middle east and South-eastern Asia.

[delangen100]

propaganda

[UserUK201]

You're not making any sense.

[UserUK201]

Perhaps, but where were the other African countries when all this was happening?

[UserUK201]

The Nazis killed 11 million white people in the holocaust and caused the deaths of 40 million white people.

[lostend1]

I hate being the complete asshole but Genocides happen when one of the five permanent members of the Security Counsel vetoes a resolution. In this case the Hutu's thought the plan out and forced the Belgian withdrawal which ended any realistic UN peacekeeping force. The US refused to get involved because of Somalia a month before and China and Russia could give a rats ass. France was the only one really involved and they pulled out immediately because of bad past experiences.

[Nordik7]

There was genocide going on in Bosnia to white people, and nothing was done. The Nazis killed 6 million white people and no one intervened to stop it. Now look at Darfur, it's happening again and no on is doing anything. I don't know why no one ever steps up to stop something as awful as genocide, but they never do.