Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire (2004): Film Companion

Answer the following questions in complete sentences.  Please use your best handwriting.

 

  • What does Canadian General Roméo Dallaire saying coming back to Rwanda seems like?

 

 

  • Who were Dallaire and the peacekeepers abandoned by?

 

 

  • How many Rwandans were slaughtered in 100 days?

 

 

  • When was Dallaire able to fall asleep in Rwanda?

 

 

  • What were Dallaire’s initial feelings about going into Rwanda?

 

 

  • How long had Rwanda been at war when the UN arrived?

 

 

  • What ethnic groups made up the two sides of the war?

 

 

  • When Dallaire responded intelligently what did the UN do?

 

 

  • What did the raising of the UN flag supposedly symbolize?

 

 

  • What type of propaganda were the Hutu extremists spreading on the radio?

 

 

  • What did the Hutu grow up learning?

 

 

  • What country created the problem in Rwanda through colonization?

 

 

  • How many Tutsis were killed in 1959 by the Hutus?

 

 

  • Who encouraged the ethic divide and hatred?

 

 

  • What state technically should not have been in on the peacekeeping mission?

 

 

  • What states made up the UN force other than Canada and Belgium?

 

 

  • How young were some of the Rwandan soldiers?

 

 

  • What was the rebel general’s name?

 

 

  • What state legitimized and spoke on behalf of the genocidal Rwandan government all over the world?

 

 

  • Why did the UN refuse to allow the use of force and action?

 

 

  • What happened on April 6, 1994?

 

 

  • Who was this extremely well planned and executed attack aimed at?

 

 

  • What did Colonel Théoneste Bayosora, Head of the Rwandan Ministry of Defense, have the power and authority to do?

 

 

  • What church could have stopped the genocide years before the war even started?

 

 

  • What was Dallaire’s aim?

 

 

  • At one point how many people were living in the UN protected Amahoro Stadium?

 

 

  • Why were people dying in the stadium?

 

 

  • Why did Dallaire feel he needed to resign from the mission?

 

 

  • Why did Dallaire obey the orders?

 

 

  • What was Dallaire’s ultimate failure?

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