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 ...

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“I take pills every day to stay reasonable,” says Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire, who in 1994 was the commander of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda. It’s a reasonable present-day response ...

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 ...