Shaking Hands with the Devil

Botswana’s Centre for Human Rights, Ditshwanelo, is currently holding its annual Film Festival in Gaborone. Always notable for the sometimes disturbing and often thought provoking movies, this year’s selections do not disappoint — the full program is available here. One example: Shake Hands with the Devil — The Journey of Romeo Dallaire dramatizes the predicament General Dallaire faced when he was sent to Rwanda in 1994 at the head of a UN peace keeping force with severely limited resources and mandate. Ultimately, he was denied authority to intervene, and his force was reduced then abandoned and in the end proved incapable of stopping the genocide. Learn more about this movie here. Learn about the genocide here.

Ditshwanelo’s website which Cyberplex Africa recently developed contains information on the organization’s work in Botswana, the variety of which surprises many given the country’s reputation as a well governed, democratic, prosperous and peaceful nation in a historically troubled region of Africa. Take a look at it for yourself.

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