As genocide raged, general's pleas for help ignored

In 1993, Romeo Dallaire was full of hope for the future of Rwanda.

Romeo Dallaire, now a Canadian senator, says that in Rwanda, he "shook hands with the devil."

A year later he left Rwanda a broken man, having watched helplessly as more than 800,000 people perished in Rwanda's genocide despite his pleas for more troops to stop the massacre.

"We could have actually saved hundreds of thousands," Dallaire told CNN's Christiane Amanpour for "Scream Bloody Murder."


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