Shake Hands With The Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

Name: Shake Hands With The Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
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When Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire received the call to serve as force commander of the UN mission to Rwanda, he thought he was heading off to Africa to help two warring parties achieve the peace both sides wanted. Instead, he and members of his small international force were caught up in a vortex of civil war and genocide.

Dallaire left Rwanda a broken man; disillusioned, suicidal, and determined to tell his story.

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Shake Hands with the Devil is a remarkable tale of a soldier’s courage, an unforgettable portrait of modern warfare and a landmark contribution to the literature of war. It is also a stinging indictment of the petty bureaucrats who refused to give Dallaire the men and the operational freedom he needed to stop the killing.

‘I know there is a God,’ Dallaire writes, ‘because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists and therefore I know there is a God.’