I know this isn't game realted, but this book hit me so hard I just had to write about it.

I just finished reading "Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda", and I must say that this is the most eye opening account of any part of history I have ever read.

Hotel Rwanda is probably the most popular reference to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, but here you have an account that is written by the man who was on the ground when it happened. Authored by Canadian LGen. Romeo Dallaire, who was the field commander for the UN mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR), and Major Brent Beardsley his Military Assistant, they ensure that there are no punches pulled. They explain vividly both the atrocities they witnessed and how the rest of the world (most specifically the UN Security Council) just sat back and let it happen. I will warn anyone interested, this is a very difficult book to read, only because of the subject matter and mental images painted by the authors.

800,000 people were brutally murdered during a 5 month span in 1994 and countless continue to die, and suffer from unspeakable atrocities in the Great Lakes region of Africa. Of course we don't hear about this from the western news outlets, because some new strain of flu is so much more important (which has killed a little over 100 people). So if you are somebody that has watched Hotel Rwanda and was touched (I've yet to watch it), or just likes to know what is really going in the world, you should definitely take the time to read this!