Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
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  • An important book that could have used a good editor.
  • Excellent book, a MUST read for all
  • if you expect stories, be prepated to be disappointed
  • A log book, no consistent story flow, yes. An amazing book, yes
  • Compelling
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
Roméo Dallaire , and Samantha Power
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For the first time in the United States comes the tragic and profoundly important story of the legendary Canadian general who “watched as the devil took control of paradise on earth and fed on the blood of the people we were supposed to protect.” When Roméo Dallaire was called on to serve as force commander of the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda, he believed that his assignment was to help two warring parties achieve the peace they both wanted. Instead, he was exposed to the most barbarous and chaotic display of civil war and genocide in the past decade, observing in just one hundred days the killings of more than eight hundred thousand Rwandans. With only a few troops, his own ingenuity and courage to direct his efforts, Dallaire rescued thousands, but his call for more support from the world body fell on deaf ears. In Shake Hands with the Devil, General Dallaire recreates the awful history the world community chose to ignore. He also chronicles his own progression from confident Cold Warrior to devastated UN commander, and finally to retired general struggling painfully, and publicly, to overcome posttraumatic stress disorder—the highest-ranking officer ever to share such experiences with readers.

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3 out of 5 stars An important book that could have used a good editor........2007-07-16

I agree with some of the negative comments about this book. It's an important book, but a good editor should have pared away a fair amount of the "today I had a meeting with..." and other items from his daily journal. The book would have been stronger by eliminating all too many of his detailed daily journal items. He could have gotten the message across better without burying us in all the acronyms, as someone mentioned. If someone gave a speech to the general public, and used all of those acronyms, a fair number of listeners would tune out. Sorry, but it's true. Very glad that I read the book, though!

5 out of 5 stars Excellent book, a MUST read for all.......2007-03-07

I had high expectations when I began reading this book due to the praise it had received. When you start with such high expectations, you normally end up being disappointed. That wasn't the case here, this book lived up to my expectations!

Dallaire's book is, I believe, the best account out there of the tragic events that unfolded in Rwanda in 1994. Due to his responsibilities, he was aware of most of what was happening in most places within Rwanda, and he was also aware of what was going on at the UN and at the security council. He's the one person who was in the best position to tell this story as it happened. He also did a fine job writing it, the book reads quite well.

The main lesson that seems to come out of this story is that all the people or organisations that could have made a difference were too self-interested to take risks for innocent people. The RPF (the Tutsi rebel army that eventually took over the country and ended the slaughter) took their time to advance since they tried to minimize their casualties, the Western countries in the security council didn't want to spend money or send soldiers, and the moderates in the Rwandan government watched silently in order to save their prestige or for their security. In the end, a handful of UN soldiers (none from the West besides Dallaire and a few Canadians) and brave and generous Rwandans were the only ones that tried to help, despite the odds that were against them.

This book does a great job at informing us and in drawing lessons from this horror. In essence, it's a great work.

4 out of 5 stars if you expect stories, be prepated to be disappointed.......2007-02-21

This is a great book, a must read to balance the voice of the UN Sceptics out there. The UN Peacekeeping Missions are not all incompetent, the system is. Who is the system? It's the Security Council with their various Committees. When things go right, the Security Council gets the praises, when things go wrong, people like Roméo Dallaire gets the blames.

There are many things UN Sceptics out there do not know but love to criticize i.e. the UN does not have its own troops, the UN Peacekeeping Mission's Military and Civilian Personnel rarely has control of the strategic operations or budget of a mission; it is the UN Security Council who does. Another very important must know-point, before criticizing the quality of the troops in a UN Mission; please please first ask the question "Where are the troops from those `high quality' countries?" When you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. When there's no political will to stop bad things from happening, the Rwandan genocide is what you get.

Roméo Dallaire wrote from first hand experience, for those who could not write out because of contractual obligation. Dallaire's account was a good picture of betrayal, naïveté, and international politics we all experience.

While Roméo Dallaire wrote briefly about the Mission 's Chief Administrative Officer who seemed indifferent to Dallaire's request for urgent requirement, he failed to understand another UN internal political undercurrent, nobody will stick their neck out, not then, not now .. because they get chopped.

Someone wrote that book has too many acronyms, people and jargons, too much frustrations .. well folks, welcome to the UN world. In-depth analysis? What's that? Never heard of. This book is REALITY. Period.

5 out of 5 stars A log book, no consistent story flow, yes. An amazing book, yes.......2006-10-23

I have read the reviews of some others here below that this book didn't have a good story line and looked to much like a dairy of this former general.

I agree but that is what puts this book aside from the others. As I work at the UN I know the (basic) frustrations that the he is experienced in his fight and by giving us a cold, day to day, story of how things happened, he actually managed to capture the frustration and disapointment that he wants us to experience.

Most people say that it's a good review when they can not put a certain book down. For me this book was a completly different experience. I simply HAD to put it down, my frustration became to much.

I recommend this book to anyone, its a lesson in humanity. It might be frustrating, disgusting and everything in between, but it should be a mandatory reading for every human being.

5 out of 5 stars Compelling.......2006-10-11

I just finished reading this book and found it both compelling and haunting. I couldn't put it down. If you are looking for a balcony analysis this is not for you but if on the other hand you want to know what it was like... no what it was really like, day to day, and step into the shoes of someone who was there then this is the book for you. Gen. Dallaire had access to and negotiated over and over again with the top leaders on both sides of the conflict and tells the story, the few triumphs and many failings of the groups in Rwanda, the member nations, and the UN itself, like no one else possibly could. My hats off to him for taking the time to tell this story, no doubt a painful one, in detail and for having given so much personally during that year of his life to save lives and minimize the deaths in Rwanda with the cards that were dealt him. Few, I believe would have persisted as long as he did trying to make a difference under similar conditions.
Dallaire, Romeo. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda.(Book Review): An article from: Naval War College Review
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    Hero, eyewitness and accountant of the Rwandan slaughter.(Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda)(Book Review): An article from: Inroads: A Journal of Opinion
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                      The Arabian Connection: A Conspiracy Against Humanity
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                      • The Arabian Connection tells what they overlooked, in the history books
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                      5 out of 5 stars The Arabian Connection tells what they overlooked, in the history books.......2006-11-28

                      In reading this book, I was amazed to learn how incredibly much the Islamic culture of the 9th through the 13 century AD has contributed to the modern world of arithmetic, chemistry, trigonometry, physics, gelology and medicine, and more.

                      We have never been told, in school, about the tremendous contributions Islamic peoples of the past gave the world. This was during the Dark Ages, in part, and as Europe recovered from them, it chose not to give credit to the Islamic greats who made so many discoveries in so many fields, and even credited many of these discoveries to its own people, instead of giving the credit where it was due--to the Islamic scientists, mathematicians, chemists, etc.

                      Although I am not a Muslim, Dr. Khaleel gave a very readable and interesting synopsis of the tremendous contributions the Islamic society long ago, especially in Spain, gave to the world. The back of the book lists numerous areas that are still used, today, such as vocabulary, medicines, foods and herbs,clothing and textiles, medical devices,
                      business and industrial items, architecture, musical items, military items, and I could go on and on...there are so many areas where we benefit from the ancient Islamic studies.

                      Sadly, a lot of the knowledge of the ancients was lost, when most of the vast libraries were destroyed, in ancient times. Western conquerors destroyed millions of books, brutally killed the Islamic scientists, and burned to the ground its centers of scholarship. Due to the marauding Vikings, Franks and Crusaders, the glories of ancient Islamic Spain were returned to a level of ignorance, from which it has never recovered.
                      Hundreds of thousands of Muslims were killed, by the invaders, and in one city, alone (Cordova, Spain), a city of a million people, it was exterminated, with few survivors.

                      As if that wasn't enough, the Mongols picked up where the above invaders left off, and pretty much wiped out the last vestiges of the once brilliant Islamic culture. That was the final blow to that illustrious civilization.

                      Fortunately, there were European scholars who knew about the many contributions of the Islamic culture before its ruination, and they studied and preserved much of the intellectual genius, hence much of it was credited to the correct scholars.

                      Dr. Khaleel is a very prolific writer....he has also penned many books on staying well and helping the body to heal itself, through the use of herbal products. On top of that, he has appeared as a guest on several radio shows, talking about alternative health methods. I am amazed at his vast knowledge of both health issues and the history of Islam!





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                                    Measuring Success in Conservation.(Statistical Data Included): An article from: American Scientist
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                                      Protecting a species: Navy Sailors in southeast keep right whales safe.: An article from: All Hands
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                                        Rebekah Blowers
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                                        Title: Protecting a species: Navy Sailors in southeast keep right whales safe.
                                        Author: Rebekah Blowers
                                        Publication: All Hands (Magazine/Journal)
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                                        The whaling issue: Conservation, confusion, and casuistry [An article from: Marine Policy]
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                                          The whaling issue: Conservation, confusion, and casuistry [An article from: Marine Policy]
                                          P.J. Clapham , S. Childerhouse , N.J. Gales , and Rojas-B
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                                          Morishita's ''multiple analysis'' of the whaling issue [Morishita J. Multiple analysis of the whaling issue: Understanding the dispute by a matrix. Marine Policy 2006;30:802-8] is essentially a restatement of the Government of Japan's whaling policy, which confuses the issue through selective use of data, unsubstantiated facts, and the vilification of opposing perspectives. Here, we deconstruct the major problems with Morishita's article and provide an alternative view of the whaling dispute. For many people in this debate, the issue is not that some whales are not abundant, but that the whaling industry cannot be trusted to regulate itself or to honestly assess the status of potentially exploitable populations. This suspicion has its origin in Japan's poor use of science, its often implausible stock assessments, its insistence that culling is an appropriate way to manage marine mammal populations, and its relatively recent falsification of whaling and fisheries catch data combined with a refusal to accept true transparency in catch and market monitoring. Japanese policy on whaling cannot be viewed in isolation, but is part of a larger framework involving a perceived right to secure unlimited access to global marine resources. Whaling is inextricably tied to the international fisheries agreements on which Japan is strongly dependent; thus, concessions made at the IWC would have potentially serious ramifications in other fora.

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