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Film Description
Shake Hands With The Devil is the most powerful documentary produced about the Rwandan genocide. It follows the man tasked by the United Nations with ensuring that peace was maintained in Rwanda - Canadian Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire, during his first return trip to Rwanda, in April 2004.
Unsupported by UN headquarters and its Security Council in New York, Dallaire and his handful of soldiers were incapable of stopping the genocide in 1994. After ten years of daily reliving the horrors and more than once attempting suicide, Dallaire poured out his soul into his extraordinary book. Shake Hands With The Devil. He pulls no punches in his condemnation of top UN officials, expedient Belgian policy makers and senior members of the Clinton administration who chose to do nothing as Dallaire pleaded for reinforcements and revised rules of engagement. He is convinced that, with a few thousand more troops and a mandate to act pre-emptively, he could have stopped the killings. His impotence, at a time of extreme crisis, preys on his conscience still. This documentary follows him as he revisits for the first time the places that haunt him.
