Shake Hands With the Devil. Handschlag mit dem Teufel, englische Ausgabe (Da Capo Pr)

When LGen. Romeo Dallaire received the call to serve as force commander of the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda, he thought he was heading off to Africa to help two warring parties achieve a peace both sides wanted. Instead, he and the members of his small international force were caught up in a vortex of civil war and genocide. Abandoned by their home nations and the UN, Dallaire and his peacekeepers attempted to stem a tide of killings with only their personal altruism, resourcefulness and bravery.§General Dallaire flew home in September 1994, broken, disillusioned and suicidal, having witnessed the murder of more than 800,000 Rwandans in only a hundred days. In "Shake Hands with the Devil", he takes the reader with him on a return voyage into the hell of Rwanda, vividly recreating the events the international community turned its back on.§This book is an eyewitness, unsparing account of the failure of humanity to stop the genocide, despite timely warnings.