“Shake Hands with the Devil”–The Backstory to “Hotel Rwanda”
A Sundance award-winning documentary, this film takes the viewer to the hell experienced by General Romeo Dallaire, who was assigned to lead UN peace-keeping forces in Rwanda in the spring of 1994. In 100 days approximately 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered, most of them Tutsis at the hands of the Hutus. The images of heaps of dead...