 Nick Nolte (qv)s character (Col. Oliver) is modeled in part on  Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire (qv), the Canadian commanding officer of  the UN Peacekeeping mission in that country who attempted to  interfere with the Rwandan Genocide despite his superiors  indifference to the atrocity. Dallaire was also the subject of  Sundance audience award documentary  _Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire (2004)_ (qv),  and witnessed such horrible acts in Rwanda that he later suffered  severe post