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The book `Shake Hands with the Devil ' centres on the 1994 , Rwandan genocide which shocked the world . The author , Romeo Dallaire , is the former head of the U .N . Peacekeeping Force that was deployed in Rwanda during the chaos . He tells us the story of the great evil where he and his men had to literally watch extremist Hutus systematically execute around 800 ,000 Tutsis . At the time Romeo Dallaire was

a general , and tried to prevent the genocide from taking place . His warnings to the UN three months prior to the killings , went ignored and his subsequent pleas for help to put things back into place went unheard . Once the Hutus targeted the Belgian Peacekeepers who served as guards to the President , his man power was once again cut down instead of being increased . He and his men watched helplessly as thousands of innocents were slaughtered . In a way the book presents the chronology of the epic horror that swept Rwanda . It was after he learned that he was suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Dis that the writer began the book . One can gauge the enormous impact the massacre has on him through his state of mind . In an interview he said "I actually think it 's having relived that year in Rwanda and the four months of the genocide through writing the book . I mean , I actually had to relive...

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