Romeo Dallaire: ILX salutes you

I want to read his book.

He's not mentioned on ILX for the same reasons that there is virtually no discussion about Darfur here. Make of that what you will.

Dallaire rules and everyone should read his book.

At his first appearance I didn't knew he got medically dismissed from the army but with all due respect, in retrospect I guess I can see why. Being atheist it is understandable that I was disturbed by the way he spoke of supernatural things in such lively fashion, that made his whole discourse a bit dodgy to me, but he seemed a bit "off" in many other subtle ways. He looks acceptably normal most of the time, then he feels the horror of what he saw as if it was happening "live"; I guess only time will tell if such a thing will be seen as heroic or pathological behavior. I don't care about his opinion on the Liberal leadership.

His book is fantastic and brutal. i would recommend anyone who's not squeamish read it.

Stress isn't cheap, like, he's post traumatic stressed-out

see also: the "shattered dreams of peace" ep of frontline. i was much more affected by ehud barak and saeb erekat's barely concealed rage than by any of the usual footage of people screaming in the streets.

That's what got me interested in the book. I saw a story on the news about how he went from being found in the fetal position under a Montreal park bench to writing a book. Figured it had to be an interesting story at the very least.

Shake Hands with the Devil, the documentary based on Dallaire's book won an Emmy the other day, which is a good thing. I saw the film on tv a couple years ago and it's kinda burned into my brain. but is necessary viewing on the levels of both political and personal struggle. i'm guessing more people will have the opportunity to see it now. from the recent press release:

Shake Hands With The Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire has been honoured as a co-recipient of this year's Emmy Award for Best Documentary by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in the United States, along with the acclaimed American documentary God Sleeps In Rwanda.

Based in part on Gen. Dallaire's award-winning book of the same title, Shake Hands With The Devil is the searing, emotional journey of Canadian Lt-General Romeo Dallaire, who fought powerlessly to invoke international action against genocide when he commanded the U.N. peacekeeping mission to Rwanda in 1994. Over 100 days, 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered as the international community turned its back and ignored Dallaire’s cries for assistance.

Filmed during General Dallaire’s first return to Rwanda in April 2004 on the tenth anniversary of the genocide there, Shake Hands With The Devil has been honoured by numerous awards including the 2005 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary; Best Long Form Documentary Award and the Best Canadian TV Program at Banff TV Festival 2005, the Jury Award at the 2005 Philadelphia Film Festival, First Prize-Creative Documentary at the 2006 International Human Rights Film Festival – Paris, and Best Team Achievement in a Documentary by the Directors Guild of Canada in 2005.

i still haven't been able to get hold of this even though I used the book as a significant source for one of my major final-year essays, an early draft of which is now posted here if anyone's interested.

Didn't get that great a mark for it, I think mainly because I'd read too much for the essay length, tried to squeeze it all it and spread myself too thinly. Or else it was just shite.

Dallaire is still my only real hero I think. Once again, I salute you sir.

robyn check this week's paper for an interview with RD conducted by one of my writers

He is a great man. and it's nice to see him still sticking his neck out after everything he has been through. Has there really not been a single thread on Darfur? That hardly seems possible.

I probably should have checked first. A quick search turned up four Darfur related threads.

I was about to say!

the article slocki mentions above - re: the dramatization of the book/docu, which also has the same name, which perhaps is confusing, but hey - http://www.dallairemovie.com/trailer.html
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I saw this film at the Toronto fest, it was really good. Harrowing, Roy Dupuis was excellent, wasn't too long (a huge problem in movies today, for me). I was told that many of the scenes were filmed in the exact place they originally occured, causing a lot of pain to many of the actors, to be sure. Dallaire was at the premiere, a very humble man you can't help but just hurt for.