Jul/Aug 2008

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Salon


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The Color of Evil

I have heard and watched numerous interviews and speeches Dallaire has given over the years. His sincerity is obvious, his sense of personal responsibility, while no longer driving him to acts of self-destruction, abiding. He speaks of the killers he observed and sometimes negotiated with in archetypal terms, as forces of evil. He frequently states that while he doesn't know if there is a God, he is certain there is a devil, because he has met him face-to-face and even shaken hands with him.

Thomas J. Hubschman