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DIRECTED BY PETER RAYMONT In 1994, while Americans were distracted by massive press coverage of the OJ Simpson case, 800,000 men, women and children were massacred in the small African country of Rwanda. The victims were mainly Tutsis, murdered by their Hutu neighbors. Canadian General Roméo Dallaire was charged with an impossible task: to head the UN peacekeeping mission with a handful of soldiers ordered not to use force to protect Rwandans from the mass slaughter. Based on Dallaire’s best-selling book, the film follows the General’s return to the region 10 years later, as he comes to grips with the events that have haunted him – his struggles with top UN officials, expedient Belgian policy-makers and Clinton administration officials who ignored his pleas for reinforcements. Judging from the current killings in Darfur, Sudan, the ethical dilemmas confronting the international community are as urgent now as a decade ago. Links:
Available at Amazon: |
 We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch |
 SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL by Lt. General Roméo Dallaire |
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