A review by beedy81
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Roméo Dallaire

4.0

An important read but a hard book to get through; about the ~100 days of genocide in Rwanda, from the Canadian military peacekeeper who refused to turn his back on the people even though he had hardly any support. I hope it was cathartic for the writer. It reads as a play by play of his time in Rwanda, and how he did what he could with what he had at the time. There's no doubt how he returned with PTSD.

Unfortunately, we're seeing a lot of the same reactions (silence) from the West in the current genocides. Governments are still failing in their humanity.