Shake Hands with the Devil

Shake Hands with the Devil

By Romeo Dallaire
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Lt. General Roméo Dallaire is revered by Canadians everywhere. When I finished the book, I could understand why. Here was a man who screamed into the void. No one listened, no one cared, no one heard. But he never stopped screaming. He valued every human life. He wept for every human loss. He never gave up.
Stephen Lewis in The Walrus

Winner of Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award - Author of the Year, 2004

Winner of Governor General's Literary Award - Nonfiction, 2004

Winner of Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing, 2003

Winner of Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award - Author of the Year, 2004

Winner of Governor General's Literary Award - Nonfiction, 2004

A brave, unforgettable first-hand account of the Rwandan genocide by a man almost literally haunted by the dead and by the spectre of his mission's failure. Marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of this horrific event, this edition includes a new note from Roméo Dallaire.

     Serving in Rwanda in 1993, LGen. Roméo Dallaire and his small peacekeeping force found themselves abandoned by the UN in a vortex of civil war and genocide. With meagre resources to stem the killing, General Dallaire was witness to the murder of 800,000 Rwandans in a hundred days, and returned home broken, disillusioned and suicidal. Shake Hands with the Devil is his return to Rwanda: a searing book that is both an eyewitness account of the failure of humanity to stop the genocide, and the story of General Dallaire's own struggle to find a measure of peace, reconciliation and hope.