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u/halifaxdatageek · 56 pointsr/AskReddit

In Canada, we have a man called Romeo Dallaire. He led the task force charged with stopping the Rwandan genocide.

As you may know, he essentially begged the world for help, and was turned down; it's detailed in his award-winning and utterly heartbreaking 2004 book Shake Hands With The Devil.

A few years after returning, he was found comatose under a park bench. He had tried to kill himself with liquor and medications.

He got the help he needed, and is now a Senator, and speaks out about veterans' mental health.

His story is so complicated to me - it's sad, tragic, but redemptive. The man saw genocide up close and personal, tried his best to stop it, and then had to sit by and watch while an entire country still burned to the ground despite his efforts.

Anyone would end up fucked up after that kind of experience.

u/furballhero · 17 pointsr/CanadianForces

Read 'Shake Hands with the Devil', Peacekeeping can be a messy, nasty, expensive [not only in terms of money but morale and blood] business. I am not looking forward to a pivot back to being called a "Peacekeeping" force.
https://www.amazon.ca/Shake-Hands-Devil-Failure-Humanity/dp/0679311726/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485302682&sr=8-1&keywords=shaking+hands+with+the+devil

u/PiscatorNF · 12 pointsr/todayilearned

It really would not have been hard to look it up.

Roméo Dallaire is alive and well. He did suffer from pretty severe PTSD and attempted suicide, but survived. He is currently a member of the Canadian Senate.

His book Shake Hands With the Devil is required reading for anyone with an interest in the Rwandan Genocide. There is a documentary and a feature film of the same name.

u/the_fat_sheep · 1 pointr/ukpolitics

If you're feeling like reading a depressing but informative book, Shake Hands With The Devil was written by Roméo Dallaire. Or, for the time-starved, there's a movie.

u/brenguns · 1 pointr/canada

A second reply;

UN peacekeepers were in Rwanda in 1994. And while being there, a million (say that again if you must because its a staggering number) people were slaughter. Actually butchered with machettes and sharpened tools. How do you think peacekeeping works now?

So how did this happen? According to the Canadian Commander on the ground, he was not mandated, and "EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN" by headquarters in New York, to use force, marauding and murderous gangs roamed the streets of Kigali. Before long chaos reigned in the capital.

Fuck peacekeeping. Yea, its a feel good tool to stick your head in the sand. Yea, I know it sounds nice.... "Peacekeeping"... people say that and think its "maintain peace and help form stable democratic societies... ".

"Never again".
https://www.amazon.ca/Shake-Hands-Devil-Failure-Humanity/dp/0679311726



u/ThePeperine · 1 pointr/The_Donald

Shake Hands With The Devil really good and depressing book if you wish to read it.