Tragically, the 1994 genocide of 800,000 people in Rwanda didn’t stir the world’s conscience as it should have. A decade later, though, it sent moviemakers scurrying for the their cameras and ...

Based in part on the book, Shake hands with the Devil by (Ret'd) Lt. General Roméo Dallaire with Major Brent Beardsley. Special features include: a reading of an excerpt of his book Shake hands with ...

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As former head of the late 1993 U.N. peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, Canadian general Dallaire's initial proposal called for 5,000 soldiers to permit orderly elections and the return of the refugees.