Hotel Rwanda

**CGM** · 12-19-2008 06:31 AM

Heavy movie. There are some heavy duty documentaries on Youtube also.

Interestingly enough only today ( Dec 18 ) they actually convicted a Rwandan army general for masterminding the entire massacre, which was somewhere between 500,000 to 800,000 people killed back in 1994.

Rwandan massacre mastermind convicted of genocide - Yahoo! News

**porkypara** · 12-19-2008 08:32 AM

The unit I was in while in the British army(9 Para Sqn RE) were out there just before I joined.

The boys out there said it was mad,a few got taken hostage and one of our boys got his foot taken off by a land mine.

Also they had ther hans tied by the government who would not let them intervien in the killings.

France has a lot of blood on its hands after what happened in Rwanda as they were backing the killers.

**CGM** · 12-19-2008 09:21 AM

The leader of the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda during this time was a Canadian. He really suffered terribly from his experience there. He really raised a stink with UN headquarters, he said a massacre was going to happen, but he got precious little support. He said himself "we could have saved hundreds of thousands..." but it just didn't happen

. Now he has big psychological problems, nightmares, depression etc.

He wrote a book about his experiences during this time. "Shake Hands With the Devil" by Romeo Dallaire.

**porkypara** · 12-19-2008 09:43 AM

Originally Posted by CGM

The leader of the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda during this time was a Canadian. He really suffered terribly from his experience there. He really raised a stink with UN headquarters, he said a massacre was going to happen, but he got precious little support. He said himself "we could have saved hundreds of thousands..." but it just didn't happen

. Now he has big psychological problems, nightmares, depression etc.

He wrote a book about his experiences during this time. "Shake Hands With the Devil" by Romeo Dallaire.

Good book.