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* DirtyCoward: Generally averted; most of the people involved conduct themselves magnificently, however, a small group of Belgian bodyguards abandon their VIPs under fire (after disobeying direct orders not to bring them back at night), and the Bangladeshi officers (in addition to repeatedly making it clear that they are not willing to take their troops into situations that are actually dangerous) are photographed stampeding towards their evacuation plane, dropping their belongings on the tarmac with some of them literally kissing the aircraft, and leaving their subordinates to catch the next plane.
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* DirtyCoward: Generally averted; most of the people involved conduct themselves magnificently, however, a small group of Belgian bodyguards abandon their VIPs [=VIPs=] under fire (after disobeying direct orders not to bring them back at night), and the Bangladeshi officers (in addition to repeatedly making it clear that they are not willing to take their troops into situations that are actually dangerous) are photographed stampeding towards their evacuation plane, dropping their belongings on the tarmac with some of them literally kissing the aircraft, and leaving their subordinates to catch the next plane.
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* TooDumbToLive: Yes, France, try to to stop the genocide by launching an operation to ''support the genocidaires''.
** Of course, they were the only foreign combat mission with boots on the ground and succeeded in stopping the Genocide in the territory they deployed in. However, while it also prevented the RPF from pursuing the fleeing Hutus- including the Genocidaires-,the fact that the RPF's response to this [[UsefulNotes/TheCongoWars was to more or less wage a war in the Eastern Congo]], this might be less irresponsible than it seems.
** Of course, they were the only foreign combat mission with boots on the ground and succeeded in stopping the Genocide in the territory they deployed in. However, while it also prevented the RPF from pursuing the fleeing Hutus- including the Genocidaires-,the fact that the RPF's response to this [[UsefulNotes/TheCongoWars was to more or less wage a war in the Eastern Congo]], this might be less irresponsible than it seems.
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* WellTrainedButInexperienced: The Bangladeshi regiments in UNAMIR are drilled to perfection on the parade ground, unfortunately they have zero combat experience, and unlike the other nations' contributions they are completely unwilling to gain experience by actually putting themselves at any kind of risk. The one time this is averted is when the collapsing infrastructure and sanitation threatens devastating outbreaks of disease; unlike the soldiers from more developed countries, the Bangladeshis were very experienced in such matters from their own homeland, and Dallaire (who pulls no punches with his denunciation of their incompetence on ''many'' other occasions) notes that their organisation of basic essentials like proper latrine trenches amongst the chaos was excellent.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: During a meeting in the demilitarization zone between the RPF and RGF, unbeknownst to the participants, RGF forces begin planting mines on the road back to the capital, despite UNAMIR having warned them multiple times not to do so in the zone. Ultimately, the only person threatened by this is Bagosora, who was not only ''responsible'' for the RGF's nonsensical antics, but was (as later events suggest) so staunchly anti-peace/Tutsi that the whole meeting was pointless, and thus in his hurry to leave he rushed straight into the minefield before the UNAMIR party uncovered it.
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** Romeo himself flirts with this upon the discovery of the Belgian soldiers murdered during the opening hours of the genocide:
-->''Romeo:''"I wanted to take justice into my own hands, an eye for an eye - the first time I had ever felt the toxic pull of retribution."
-->''Romeo:''"I wanted to take justice into my own hands, an eye for an eye - the first time I had ever felt the toxic pull of retribution."
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* BadassBureaucrat: A number of civilian administrative staff in UNAMIR and other organisations get named and praised for their dedication to their own life-saving tasks under immense pressure and danger.
* BadassCrew: Dallaire's entire team, save theBangladeshis.Bangladeshis and some of the Belgians. It takes ''balls'' to live the way they did.
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: The Belgians are widely disliked by Rwandans, both because of the colonial history and because some of the soldiers behave disgracefully. However, the Bangladeshis take the cake in UNAMIR, with displays of farcical incompetence that would be comical in a less deadly situation. See DirtyCoward above for an incident on which Dallaire notes his [[{{Understatement}} "extreme displeasure"]], as well as a wry observation that they couldn't even leave without screwing over the mission in some way.
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* TheStrategist: Dallaire thinks Kagame fully deserves his nickname of "the Napoleon of Africa" and is convinced very early on that the RPF will win the war because their leadership is so obviously superior to the RGF. While it is ambiguous whether Kagame had ulterior motives in his actions (or at least had different priorities) the brilliance of his military campaign is beyond question.
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A fictionalized version of Dallaire, played by Creator/NickNolte, appears in the 2004 film Film/HotelRwanda.
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''Film/HotelRwanda''.
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* ConspicuouslyPublicAssassination: The shooting down of President Habyarimana's plane with surface-to-air missiles (killing both Habyarimana and the President of Burundi) is a major catalyst of the genocide, which begins mere hours later. The identity of the side responsibile remains disputed to this day: most (including the post-genocide Rwandan government) state that Hutu extremists in the government wanted the relatively moderate Habyarimana eliminated, while others say the RPF killed him because of their frustration of the delay in implementing the Arusha Accords.
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* HumansAreBastards: Being deployed in UsefulNotes/{{Rwanda}} during the genocide can show a darker side of humanity.
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* HumansAreBastards: The subtitle of the book is "The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda". Being deployed in UsefulNotes/{{Rwanda}} during the genocide can show a darker side of humanity.
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''Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda'' is a 2003 non-fiction book by Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire and Major Brent Beardsley. The bulk of the book is the account of Dallaire's experiences during his stint as force commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) from 1993-1994. Dallaire and UNAMIR are originally tasked with preserving the fragile Arusha Accords, a ceasefire agreement which the UN hopes will be a roadmap to peacefully ending Rwanda's ethnic civil war. UNAMIR is meant to be the neutral force keeping the peace between the Hutu-dominated Rwandan government and the Tutsi militants of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF).
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''Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda'' is a 2003 non-fiction book by Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire and Major Brent Beardsley. The bulk of the book is the account of Dallaire's experiences during his stint as force commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) from 1993-1994. Dallaire and UNAMIR are originally tasked with preserving the fragile Arusha Accords, a ceasefire agreement which the UN hopes will be a roadmap to peacefully ending Rwanda's ethnic civil war. UNAMIR is meant to be the neutral force keeping the peace between the Hutu-dominated Rwandan government and the Tutsi militants of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF).
(RPF) as the two sides form a multi-ethnic transitional democratic government.
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**The RPF could technically count, too, though the [[BlackAndGrayMorality hero]] part is really debatable.
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''Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda'' is a 2003 non-fiction book by Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire and Major Brent Beardsley. The bulk of the book is the account of Dallaire's experiences during his stint as force commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) from 1993-1994 as 1993-1994. Dallaire and UNAMIR are originally tasked with preserving the fragile Arusha Accords, a ceasefire agreement which the UN hopes will be a roadmap to peacefully ending Rwanda's ethnic civil war. UNAMIR is meant to be the neutral force tried to keep keeping the peace in between the lead up to Hutu-dominated Rwandan government and during the Tutsi militants of the Rwandan Genocide.
Patriotic Front (RPF).
As the situation deteriorates and Rwanda plunges into a bloody genocide, UNAMIR does what it can constrained by it's limited orders to stem the bloodshed and Dallaire desperately tries to convince the UN and major world powers to do something.
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''Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda'' is a 2003 book by Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire and Major Brent Beardsley. It is an account of Dallaire's experiences during his stint as force commander in UNAMIR from 1993-1994 and the Rwandan Genocide.
This book won the 2003 Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing, and 2004 Governor General's Award for nonfiction. It was made into a documentary film called ''Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire'' in 2004.
This book won the 2003 Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing, and 2004 Governor General's Award for nonfiction. It was made into a documentary film called ''Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire'' in 2004.
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''Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda'' is a 2003 non-fiction book by Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire and Major Brent Beardsley. It The bulk of the book is an the account of Dallaire's experiences during his stint as force commander in UNAMIR of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) from 1993-1994 as the force tried to keep the peace in the lead up to and during the Rwandan Genocide.
This The book won the 2003 Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing, Writing and 2004 Governor General's Award for nonfiction. It was made into The book also served as the basis for a documentary film about Dallaire's life called ''Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire'' in 2004.
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* {{Frameup}}: Used in one of the most depicable ways possible: it is speculated that the RGF had framed the RPF for the [[MoralEventHorizon murders and gangrape gang-rape of six young children]].
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''Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda'' is a 2003 book by Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire and Major Brent Beardsley. It is an account of Dallaire's experiences during his stint as force commander in UNAMIR from 1993-1994 and the Rwandan Genocide.
This book won the 2003 Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing, and 2004 Governor General's Award for nonfiction. It was made into a documentary film called ''Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire'' in 2004.
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* BadassCrew: Dallaire's entire team, save the Bangladeshis. It takes ''balls'' to live the way they did.
* BadassPacifist: All of UNAMIR. They aren't allowed to fight unless they're attacked first. That doesn't stop them from protecting the refugees.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: The RGF is slaughtering and torturing civilians, while the RPF is shelling civilian places and taking away medical aid.
* BlatantLies: What the Clinton administration said about what they did to help Rwanda. 'Provided $9 million in relief' my ass.
* CanucksWithChinooks: Dallaire himself and the Canadian contingent within UNAMIR.
* TheChessmaster: Paul Kagame
* ChildSoldiers: The RPF and the RGF both use child soldiers... something Dallaire is violently opposed too.
* {{Doorstopper}}: Over 500 pages, in most versions.
* {{Frameup}}: Used in one of the most depicable ways possible: it is speculated that the RGF had framed the RPF for the [[MoralEventHorizon murders and gangrape of six young children]].
* FriendToAllChildren: Dallaire. In the Prologue, he almost decides to take an orphaned child back to the UN camp in Kigali. He cares deeply about the youth of Rwanda.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Dallaire and his team. The RPF could technically count, too, though the [[BlackAndGrayMorality hero]] part is really debatable.
* HeroicBSOD: Dallaire and troops suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome after all the horrors they've witnessed in genocide.
** Dallaire himself was seriously suicidal for years after returning to Canada. As he mentioned in the afterword for the book, writing it was his attempt to dispel the demons that haunted him. It was apparently mostly successful, though in speaking engagements and interviews he admits to still having deep-seeded psychological problems.
* HumansAreBastards
* LastStand: Dallaire's there to the bitter end.
* OnlySaneMan: Dallaire, sometimes. While the rest of the world refuses to see the scope of the genocide and take action, Dallaire is in the thick of it from start to finish. Especially later on in the book, when Dallaire's two most loyal men, Brent Beardsley and Luc Marchal, are forced to leave UNAMIR.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After finding out that their family had been slaughtered, some of the RPF soldiers go on this against the Hutus.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Romeo Dallaire.
* SlaveToPR: The entire UN
* TooDumbToLive: Yes, France, try to to stop the genocide by launching an operation to ''support the genocidaires''.
** Of course, they were the only foreign combat mission with boots on the ground and succeeded in stopping the Genocide in the territory they deployed in. However, while it also prevented the RPF from pursuing the fleeing Hutus- including the Genocidaires-,the fact that the RPF's response to this [[CongoWars was to more or less wage a war in the Eastern Congo]], this might be less irresponsible than it seems.
* TragicHero: Dallaire, oh so much.
* UnreliableNarrator: Just about everybody. The UN, the national heads of state, the genocidaires, the RPF.... everybody. Even Dallaire has been accused of this.
* VillainBall: The Genocidaires. Had they not decided to wage genocide, they wouldn't have seen themselves reduced to hated, hunted, and despised escapees fleeing not only from a Rwandan government ruled by their longtime enemy, but also most of the world.
''Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda'' is a 2003 book by Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire and Major Brent Beardsley. It is an account of Dallaire's experiences during his stint as force commander in UNAMIR from 1993-1994 and the Rwandan Genocide.
This book won the 2003 Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing, and 2004 Governor General's Award for nonfiction. It was made into a documentary film called ''Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire'' in 2004.
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!!This work provides examples of:
* BadassCrew: Dallaire's entire team, save the Bangladeshis. It takes ''balls'' to live the way they did.
* BadassPacifist: All of UNAMIR. They aren't allowed to fight unless they're attacked first. That doesn't stop them from protecting the refugees.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: The RGF is slaughtering and torturing civilians, while the RPF is shelling civilian places and taking away medical aid.
* BlatantLies: What the Clinton administration said about what they did to help Rwanda. 'Provided $9 million in relief' my ass.
* CanucksWithChinooks: Dallaire himself and the Canadian contingent within UNAMIR.
* TheChessmaster: Paul Kagame
* ChildSoldiers: The RPF and the RGF both use child soldiers... something Dallaire is violently opposed too.
* {{Doorstopper}}: Over 500 pages, in most versions.
* {{Frameup}}: Used in one of the most depicable ways possible: it is speculated that the RGF had framed the RPF for the [[MoralEventHorizon murders and gangrape of six young children]].
* FriendToAllChildren: Dallaire. In the Prologue, he almost decides to take an orphaned child back to the UN camp in Kigali. He cares deeply about the youth of Rwanda.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Dallaire and his team. The RPF could technically count, too, though the [[BlackAndGrayMorality hero]] part is really debatable.
* HeroicBSOD: Dallaire and troops suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome after all the horrors they've witnessed in genocide.
** Dallaire himself was seriously suicidal for years after returning to Canada. As he mentioned in the afterword for the book, writing it was his attempt to dispel the demons that haunted him. It was apparently mostly successful, though in speaking engagements and interviews he admits to still having deep-seeded psychological problems.
* HumansAreBastards
* LastStand: Dallaire's there to the bitter end.
* OnlySaneMan: Dallaire, sometimes. While the rest of the world refuses to see the scope of the genocide and take action, Dallaire is in the thick of it from start to finish. Especially later on in the book, when Dallaire's two most loyal men, Brent Beardsley and Luc Marchal, are forced to leave UNAMIR.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After finding out that their family had been slaughtered, some of the RPF soldiers go on this against the Hutus.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Romeo Dallaire.
* SlaveToPR: The entire UN
* TooDumbToLive: Yes, France, try to to stop the genocide by launching an operation to ''support the genocidaires''.
** Of course, they were the only foreign combat mission with boots on the ground and succeeded in stopping the Genocide in the territory they deployed in. However, while it also prevented the RPF from pursuing the fleeing Hutus- including the Genocidaires-,the fact that the RPF's response to this [[CongoWars was to more or less wage a war in the Eastern Congo]], this might be less irresponsible than it seems.
* TragicHero: Dallaire, oh so much.
* UnreliableNarrator: Just about everybody. The UN, the national heads of state, the genocidaires, the RPF.... everybody. Even Dallaire has been accused of this.
* VillainBall: The Genocidaires. Had they not decided to wage genocide, they wouldn't have seen themselves reduced to hated, hunted, and despised escapees fleeing not only from a Rwandan government ruled by their longtime enemy, but also most of the world.
