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"shake hands with the devil"
Sep. 10th, 2013 09:30 pmMy latest read.
The Japanese translation of "Shake hands with the Devil", a very serious book about the Rwandan genocide by Roméo Dallaire, the commander of the UN mission to Rwanda in 1994.
As for the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 I've seen the film "Hotel Rwanda", read the book "An ordinary Man" by Paul Rusesabagina and "We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families" by Philip Gourevitch (Both in translation, of course). So this topic was not new to me still this book by commander Dallaire was rather shocking, for it's not only about the tragedy in Rwanda, rather, it's more about how dirty, silly and shortsighted the senior officers of UN are, and how selfish and cruel to others the large countries (means USA, France, UK and Belgium here, but of course most of other advanced nations are like them) are. This makes us somewhat feel pessimistic about humanity. But also I can read some real "heroic" efforts made by many nameless officers and soldiers here.
There are surely the things we have to learn from this kind of severest experience...
The Japanese translation of "Shake hands with the Devil", a very serious book about the Rwandan genocide by Roméo Dallaire, the commander of the UN mission to Rwanda in 1994.
As for the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 I've seen the film "Hotel Rwanda", read the book "An ordinary Man" by Paul Rusesabagina and "We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families" by Philip Gourevitch (Both in translation, of course). So this topic was not new to me still this book by commander Dallaire was rather shocking, for it's not only about the tragedy in Rwanda, rather, it's more about how dirty, silly and shortsighted the senior officers of UN are, and how selfish and cruel to others the large countries (means USA, France, UK and Belgium here, but of course most of other advanced nations are like them) are. This makes us somewhat feel pessimistic about humanity. But also I can read some real "heroic" efforts made by many nameless officers and soldiers here.
There are surely the things we have to learn from this kind of severest experience...