Shake Hands With the Devil Details

Shake Hands With the Devil

In 1993, the United Nations dispatches Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire to far off Rwanda to oversee a fragile cease-fire. A brilliant, workaholic officer and charismatic commander, Dallaire encounters the shabby reality of a typical UN peacekeeping operation: under-funded, overbureaucratic, and cobbled together from military units from dozens of countries, each with a slightly different agenda. Meanwhile, the peace agreement between the rebels, led by the minority Tutsi ethnic group, and the French-supported government dominated by the Hutu majority group, turns out to rest on shaky ground. When an unknown group shoots down the Rwandan President's plane, the storm breaks and a secret but long-planned genocidal campaign against the Tutsi minority begins with a night of terror in Kigali. A reporter remains in-country and follows General Dellaire as he is forced to deal with far-away superiors and the studied indifference of the world's great powers while trying to take decisive action to stop the genocide of over 800,000 innocent civilians.

Starring	Roy Dupuis, Owen Sejake, James Gallanders, Michael Mongeau, Michel Mongeau, Robert Lalonde
Director	Roger Spottiswoode
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 52 mins Watch now: 1 hr 31 mins
Certificate	DVD: , Watch Online:
Genres	Documentary, Drama
Language	DVD: English Watch Online: English
Released	DVD: not available Watch now: 05 Jun 2009 Production year: 2007
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Format	DVD