A Rwandan genocide survivor based in the US, Eugenie Mukeshimana will be a guest on a talk show about Romeo Dallaire’s book “Shake Hands with the Devil”
The Holocaust-Genocide Resource Center which is located on Mercer County Community College’s the Library building in the United States; this February 29th 2012 will be hosting a talk show on the book “Shake hands with the devil” by author Romeo Dallaire, with Eugenie Mukeshimana, the founder of a genocide survivor’s network.
“Shake Hands with the Devil” is a book, much like a narrative from Dallaire’s accounts on the horrific bloodshed that occurred in Rwanda over One hundred days in 1994.
Romeo Dallaire is a Canadian general who served as force commander of the U.N assistance mission for Rwanda.
Dallaire that managed to rescue thousands of Tutsi’s, his book gives a vivid description of how he witnessed the massacre of about a million Rwandans while they cried for help but fell on deaf ears.
In his book he says “I watched as the devil took control of paradise on earth and fed on the blood of the people we were supposed to protect.”
Mukeshimana, a mother of one and a genocide survivor, immigrated to the United States in 2001 where she graduated from the college of St.Rose in Albany in New York.
Soon after the genocide Mukeshimana founded a Genocide Survivors Support group/ Network which now educates people about the crimes of genocide, her mission is to help as many genocide survivors rebuild their lives.
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