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Shake Hands with the Devil

The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

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Shake Hands with the Devil

Von: Romeo Dallaire
Gesprochen von: Marcel Jeannin
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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. Afrika Krieg & Militär Kriminologie Militär Politik & Regierungen Sozialwissenschaften
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While the first few chapters are a stretch and quite tedious to get through, it does convey what soldiers in the field experience as well: Long periods of waiting, followed by extremely intense periods of action. And this book is no different. The amount of action in the later chapters will be so unexpected after getting to know all the military jargon, will roll over you and it’ll all be over before you know it. Still, some parts are extremely graphic and tough to get through. It is important not to whitewash this story however and as a truly great human being and honest soldier would, Lt.-Gen. Dallaire tells all. The book being written by one of the world’s leading humanitarians means there will be a call to action at the end of the book - and what a call to action that is. In my opinion, that last chapter is absolutely brilliant and foreshadowed his involvement in many of the causes he spearheads now: Fighting the use of children im war, improving women’s and children’s rights, education and combatting world hunger. A fantastic book and I kick myself for not finishing this years ago when I first bought the book in French.

The narrator is great as well, sounds almost exactly like Dallaire himself and pronounces the french expressions with a delightful Quebecois accent, just as RD would. The General provided a short introduction as well.

All in all a fantastic production. Cannot recommend enough. Now start listening! Allons-y!

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This book is terrible. Not in the sense that it's badly written or badly read, but exactly for the opposite reason - it's a very detailed step-by-step account written in a very direct language with a personal touch. Because of all this, it makes you see yourself actually in the middle of the increasigly unfolding catastrophe and feel unable to stop it (I'm not going to insert judgement on what the author could or could not have done - I'm very sure it stays with him every day). It's f*cking haunting. It's a thriller which is a thousand times scarier than any horror book, because you know it actually happened in real life. It makes you lose hope in humanity. I both cannot recommend this book because of how traumatising it is and cannot recommend this enough as a reminder that unspeakable things happen when aritificial divisions are made between people.

When a tragedy of the nation is somebody else's paperwork

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