Canada Days at Mizzou: Film screening -- SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL March 7, 2012

This event is part of the 8th annual Canada Days hosted by the University of Missouri Canadian Studies Center and the Consulate General of Canada in Chicago.

Based in part on the award-winning book, this documentary is the emotional journey of Canadian Lt-General Roméo Dallaire, who commanded the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda in 1994. Over 100 days, 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered during the Rwanda genocide as the international community turned its back and ignored Dallaire's cries for help. This experience let to Dallaire's own life tragedies as he dealt with the psychological fallout of witnessing a genocide he was powerless to stop. *** Senator Dallaire will be visiting the University of Missouri in late April. ***

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