Shake Hands With The Devil
The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
(Sprache: Englisch)
The award-winning war memoir by the general who commanded the UN forces during the Rwandan Genocide
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The award-winning war memoir by the general who commanded the UN forces during the Rwandan Genocide
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Rom¿Dallaire joined the Canadian Army in 1964. A three star General, he served as Deputy Commander of the Canadian Army and later in the Ministry of Defence. In 1993 he was sent to Rwanda on a UN peace-helping mission; he was soon struggling to prevent one of modern history's most shocking events and the UN's famous failed mission: the genocide in Rwanda. General Dallaire was medically released from the armed forces in April 2000 due to posttraumatic stress disorder and is now special adviser to the Canadian government on war-affected children and the prohibition of small arms distribution. In January 2002, he received the inaugural Aegis Award for Genocide Prevention in London. The Rwandan genocide is one of the most shocking examples of political exploitation and ethnic cleansing in living memory. It has been immortalised in the films Hotel Rwanda and Shooting Dogs, and here in the words of a seasoned soldier.
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Romeo Dallaire
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Romeo Dallaire
- 2005, 592 Seiten, Maße: 13 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Arrow Books
- ISBN-10: 0099478935
- ISBN-13: 9780099478935
- Erscheinungsdatum: 29.06.2011
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Shake Hands With The Devil is one of the saddest books I have ever read and one of the most heart-breaking eye-witness accounts.A kind of naive and painfully honest confession of the failure of an organisation, a meticulous description of one of the worst betrayals in the history of humanity." Guardian "indisputably the best account of the whole terrible Rwandan genocide" The Sunday Times "Although this is a deeply personal book, it is undoubtedly an important historical record of the UN's failure in Rwanda and an impassioned plea against the moral cowardice that allowed the genocide to happen." The Independent
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Shake Hands With The Devil is one of the saddest books I have ever read and one of the most heart-breaking eye-witness accounts.A kind of naive and painfully honest confession of the failure of an organisation, a meticulous description of one of the worst betrayals in the history of humanity. Guardian
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