Hotel Rwanda
Betsy and I just got back from Orange Cinema's Movie by the Lake. Every summer the local mobile company Orange setups a temporary theatre by the Lake. Every night they show a different movie with 1 or 2 a week being in English. The setting is great overlooking the lake and city.
Last night we went to see Hotel Rwanda which is the story of a hotel manager in Kigali, Rwanda who managed to save/hide over a 1000 Tutsi & Hutu refugees from the massacres that engulfed the rest of the country.
It was a brutal, but brilliant movie. The movie based on a true story was similar to Schindlers List about a man who didn't intend to be a hero doing something heroic. I would heartily recommend this film to everyone.
It is disturbing how cruel people can be. How could Rwandan's hack to death almost a million of their neighbors, friends & relatives? How could the West not put a stop to it? How could the UN be so ineffective? These are only some of the questions that you are left asking as you leave the film.
Romeo Dallaire the Canadian General apparently pleaded with the Director of UN Peacekeeping for troops to stop the massacre. He sent a memo saying if he had 5000 troops he could end the slaughter that claimed >900,000 lives in 100 days. The Director of Peacekeeping never sent or referred this memo to the UN Security Council. The Director of Peacekeeping was Kofi Annan...
Last night we went to see Hotel Rwanda which is the story of a hotel manager in Kigali, Rwanda who managed to save/hide over a 1000 Tutsi & Hutu refugees from the massacres that engulfed the rest of the country.
It was a brutal, but brilliant movie. The movie based on a true story was similar to Schindlers List about a man who didn't intend to be a hero doing something heroic. I would heartily recommend this film to everyone.
It is disturbing how cruel people can be. How could Rwandan's hack to death almost a million of their neighbors, friends & relatives? How could the West not put a stop to it? How could the UN be so ineffective? These are only some of the questions that you are left asking as you leave the film.
Romeo Dallaire the Canadian General apparently pleaded with the Director of UN Peacekeeping for troops to stop the massacre. He sent a memo saying if he had 5000 troops he could end the slaughter that claimed >900,000 lives in 100 days. The Director of Peacekeeping never sent or referred this memo to the UN Security Council. The Director of Peacekeeping was Kofi Annan...
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