Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire

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In 1994 over 800,000 men, women and children were massacred in Rwanda. Canadian General Roméo Dallaire, head of the UN peacekeeping mission, pleaded unsuccessfully for reinforcements to help stop the genocide. 10 years later he returns to Rwanda, reflects on his inability to convince the UN and the Clinton administration to intervene and how the world community could prevent a similar occurrence in another part of the world.

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• Rwanda
• genocide
• UN
• peacekeeping
• mission
• Canadian
• General
• Clinton
• administration
• war
• U.S.
• intervention
• massacre

[sansam25]

You are a hero Romeo! A true Canadian hero. God Bless

[mgapusaniboy5]

I just saw the documentary of CNN's Christiane Amonpour on Genocide a while ago. Dallaire was a hero because he really tried to help these people. What a powerful story.

[thesmartape1]

one of the greatest man alive it is my privilege to live in the same time and world as he did

[MultiTheQueen]

1.400.000 ppl died*

[paddy25c]

loved this documentary, very hard to watch and see how shit the international community was, the bit about stompn tom conners made me smile.

[ARCUS1200]

For me, Romeo Dallaire is a hero, but made powerless because of the UN. Kofi Annan who refused to send in more troops and help, who refused to dismantle weapon depots while everyone knew if they didn't destroy those weapons, they would be used against Tutsi's. The story that he told about watching from the UN base to people that got murdered...the sounds you could hear in the distance from people getting killed. No wonder he lost it in his real life when back in Canada. It makes me sick really.

[p4p4g4nj4]

one feels the calling to dawn the blue helmet and rifle. but i would aim that rifle directly at the Security Council, who deliberately told Dallaire that "Rwanda has no strategic value, no value for western soldiers"

[p4p4g4nj4]

@goodfoot1971 you should read his book. he couldnt get information. it was a war for him to get information. he found out bout the death of the Belgians 4 days after theirs deaths

[goodfoot1971]

Well, without completely pissing all over Dallaire because he was trying to help, why in the HECK did he ever obey the order to withdraw the peacekeepers from that school when he ABSOLUTELY knew those 2,000 people would be killed when they left? I'm sure my limited infomation prevents my full understanding, but it's still a sad event.

[TheSirCommunity]

Agreed. If you watch the doc from (2004) you really feel like punching some govermental bodys for such a failure.