Roméo Dallaire
A decorated Lieutenant General, Roméo Dallaire served for 35 years with the Canadian Armed Forces. A best-selling author, his 2004 book, Shake Hands With the Devil, is a stirring account of his experience as the Force Commander of the United Nations Mission to Rwanda and exposes the failures by humanity to stop the worst genocide in the 20th century. Lieutenant-General Dallaire received the Order of Canada in 2002.
Shake Hands With the Devil – The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda was awarded the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction in 2004. It has garnered numerous international literary awards, and will be the basis of a full-length feature film due for release in 2006. He was recently presented with the United Nations Association in Canada’s Pearson Peace Medal by Canada’s Governor-General, Adrienne Clarkson.
On March 24, 2005, Prime Minister Paul Martin announced that Her Excellency the Governor General has summoned Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire to the Senate. Lieutenant-General Dallaire will be sitting in the Senate as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.
