Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire, sent in 1993 to enforce a peace agreement between warring factions in Rwanda, found himself in the middle of a bloodbath with few troops to aid his mission. Scott Simon talks ...

Filmgoers eager to see a movie about heroism in the midst of moral ambiguity, about the superhuman efforts of one man against the engulfing forces of evil, about the competing and sometimes ...

Another year, another Rwanda movie: This time it's "Shake Hands With the Devil," director Roger Spottiswoode's dramatization of United Nations Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire's eyewitness account of the 1994 ...

As former head of the late 1993 U.N. peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, Canadian general Dallaire's initial proposal called for 5,000 soldiers to permit orderly elections and the return of the refugees.

An informant tells Gen. Dallaire about the Hutu extremists' extermination plans. But Kofi Annan's U.N. peacekeeping office is skeptical; Annan tells Dallaire not to raid arms caches and avoid using ...

I've just finished reading Dallaire's book on his experiences while leading UNAMIR during the initial genocide in 94 in Rwanda.<BR>It brought back my long standing feeling about humanity that I've ...

“I take pills every day to stay reasonable,” says Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire, who in 1994 was the commander of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda. It’s a reasonable present-day response ...

My deepest regret, during my years in government, was that the United States did not do more, earlier, to halt the genocide that engulfed Rwanda 11 years ago this spring. In Shake Hands with the Devil ...

Gen. Romeo Dallaire, who commanded U.N. forces in Rwanda during that nation's genocide sent a letter this week to the joint United Nations-African Union forces whose task is to stabilize Darfur.

Based in part on the book, Shake hands with the Devil by (Ret'd) Lt. General Roméo Dallaire with Major Brent Beardsley. Special features include: a reading of an excerpt of his book Shake hands with ...

Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire witnessed the killing and chaos of the Hutu/Tutsi conflict in Rwanda. Scott Simon talks to Dallaire about his experience,... Romeo Dallaire, Meeting the 'Devil' in Rwanda Lt.