FIGHT LIKE SOLDIERS, DIE LIKE CHILDREN

Romeo Dallaire on recruiting child soldiers: "It's not just a crime against humanity, it's a sin."

This evening I saw the documentary FIGHT LIKE SOLDIERS, DIE LIKE CHILDREN at the Bloor.  That cinema's within walking distance of my home, so with the warm weather I'm now walking to it!

The film's about retired general Romeo Dallaire's efforts to rescue and rehabilitate child soldiers in Africa. (He wrote a book with the same title.) He's one of the good Canadians, a hero of mine.  He realizes that ending this tragedy will take decades and has to be done one step at a time.  Director Patrick Reed appeared for a Q&A after the movie.

Someday I should read Dallaire's book SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL, about how the United Nations thwarted his efforts to prevent the Rwandan holocaust, the start of the region's continuing instability.