Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire
 

SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL: THE JOURNEY OF ROMEO DALLAIRE
Monday January 31 at 9pm on CBC-TV
repeating Wednesday February 2 at 10pm ET/PT on CBC Newsworld

Canadian Lt.-General (ret.) Roméo Dallaire may never fully come to terms with the horrific events that unfolded while he commanded the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, but the emotionally scarred Dallaire is trying. Over 100 nightmarish days in 1994, more than 800,000 men, women and children were brutally murdered, despite the valiant efforts of Dallaire and his small number of peacekeepers.

Shake Hands With The Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire follows the former UN General during his first return trip to Rwanda 10 years after the genocide, a searing emotional journey in which he confronts the memories that persistently haunt him.

In 1993, Dallaire was thrown into a country with only minimal briefing, leading a force that included ill equipped, poorly trained soldiers, some of whom did not want to be there. Unsupported by UN headquarters, Dallaire and his remaining handful of soldiers were incapable of stopping the killing. He condemns top UN officials, Belgian policy-makers, and senior members of the Clinton administration who chose to do nothing as he pleaded each day for reinforcements and revised rules of engagement. The experience led to Dallaire’s own life tragedy, more than once attempting suicide, as he dealt with the psychological fallout of witnessing a genocide he believes could have been stopped.

Dallaire shares his remarkable emotional pilgrimage back to Rwanda, not only with the documentary crew, but also with his wife, who for the first time experiences the country that changed her husband so dramatically. The documentary is based in part on the best-selling book Shake Hands With The Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Lt.-General Roméo Dallaire, which recently won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. It was principally filmed in early April 2004, during the 10th anniversary of the genocide.

Shake Hands With The Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire is produced and directed by Gemini Award-winning filmmaker Peter Raymont of White Pine Pictures in association with CBC/Radio-Canada.


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http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeye/shakehands.html

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Sounds great, ill be sure to tune in

Sounds interesting....

offtopic: On the Book It says Winner The GG's eek:

looks good. Anyone see 'Hotel Rwanda?'

thanks for the heads up

Looks good, plus he has a sweet chin.

It's a God damned shame what happened and continues to happen over there. It's got to be frustrating to no end leading a multi-national peace keeping force comprised of who knows what. I'm slightly amused that the Clinton Administration was faulted for not doing anything. I mean one minute people don't want the US involved in this kind of shit and the next we are faulted for not getting involved. I guess I'll have to concede that the US should have done something while 800K people were subjected to these atrocities. Too bad that the people charged with preventing this kind of shit were too busy feathering their nests with the Iraqi oil for food fiasco. The UN is a fucking embarrassment. It wasn't but a couple of weeks ago that it was reported that little girls were banging the UN peace keepers in the Congo in exchange for eggs and a couple of bucks. Good job UN.

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Bump

In response to tomxtr, I understand what you mean. I think the Lt.-General would have taken any troops he could have got his hands on that were well trained. And the US at the time and still is one of the largest and best soldiers in the world. I guess thats why he would look to them for help.

It's a shame that everything in this world is based on money and politics. You can bet your sweet ass that if that was an oil rich country, there wouldv'e been plenty of help with the US leading the charge. Fuckin' politics fuck everything up everytime.

Read it in the globe and mail today...gonna watch it diffently

rock:

Sounds great.

Agreed

A friend of mine just finished reading that book. He said it was really intense. I'll be tuning in to see that for sure.

interesting, ill be tuning in tonight.