The Last Just Man (2001)

Directed by

Steven Silver

Genre

documentary

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 10m

Rating

8.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Canadian general recounts his experience leading the U.N. peacekeeping mission during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The film focuses on his regret over the international community's failure to stop the mass killings.

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What happens

The Last Just Man is a documentary film that details the events that led to the slaughter of 800,000 people in a 100 days genocide in 1994 in Rwanda. It is dominated by the account of the head of the U.N. peace keeping mission in Rwanda, Brigadier General Romeo Dellaire, a Canadian who bore witness to those atrocities and wished he stopped them. It was directed by Steven Silver. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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