View Shake Hands With The Devil: The Failure Of Humanity In Rwanda Pictures. A remarkable tale of a soldier's courage and an unforgettable parable of good and evil. From the armenian genocide to the ethnic cleansings of kosovo and darfur, modern history is haunted by acts of brutal violence.
With only a few troops, his own ingenuity and courage to direct his efforts, dallaire rescued thousands, but his call for more support from the world body fell on deaf ears. Dallaire opens his heart and shows us the failure of the united nations in rwanda. The failure of the u.n.'s wealthier members to act as the tragedy unfolded obliged the author to leave military service to recover from ptsd (as well as the near my interest in the rwandan genocide was heightened when in 2012 i was sent to rwanda in a partnership for africa program with the us air.
But the best that can be said of the film is that it is an honorable dud.
In shake hands with the devil, general dallaire recreates the awful history the world community chose to ignore. Woven thru the story of this disastrous mission dallaire shows the failure of the un and western nations to intervene adequately in the rwandan genocide. It is also a stinging indictment of the petty bureaucrats who refused to give dallaire the men and. This book is an unsparing eyewitness account of the failure by humanity to stop the genocide, despite timely warnings.