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If you haven't seen it, check out Hotel Rwanda!
Very powerfull film.
Very powerfull film.
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Asked about this film in the Political Arena when it was in limited release. Too bad a decent movie/docudrama takes a back seat to the "Real" documentaries like Fahrenheit 911 :barf: for public acclaim.
Hope more people go to see it. Butrous-Butrous Gali and Kofi Anan deserve our scorn and the blame for the UN's failure to act responsibibly in the clear genicide of over 500,00 Rwandan Tutsis and the final tally of over 1,000,000 Rwandans killed in the actions that followed.
Hope more people go to see it. Butrous-Butrous Gali and Kofi Anan deserve our scorn and the blame for the UN's failure to act responsibibly in the clear genicide of over 500,00 Rwandan Tutsis and the final tally of over 1,000,000 Rwandans killed in the actions that followed.
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One of my closest mates was there - part of the Red Cross response to the genocide. I'll be interested to hear what he thinks of the film.
He has been in Rwanda, Bosnia, Siera Leone, Sudan and now Uganda - He has experienced all of these places where people suddenly turned to killing each other, often after living peaceably for several generations. So I asked him one day, how far are we, in places like Australia, NZ (he's a Kiwi), the U.S. and U.K., from tripping into that sort of madness. His answer was that we are a lot closer than we used to be, particularly when we have politicians constantly playing the fear card to get elected.
He has been in Rwanda, Bosnia, Siera Leone, Sudan and now Uganda - He has experienced all of these places where people suddenly turned to killing each other, often after living peaceably for several generations. So I asked him one day, how far are we, in places like Australia, NZ (he's a Kiwi), the U.S. and U.K., from tripping into that sort of madness. His answer was that we are a lot closer than we used to be, particularly when we have politicians constantly playing the fear card to get elected.
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java said:Hope more people go to see it. Butrous-Butrous Gali and Kofi Anan deserve our scorn and the blame for the UN's failure to act responsibibly in the clear genicide of over 500,00 Rwandan Tutsis and the final tally of over 1,000,000 Rwandans killed in the actions that followed.
Possibly, but one might ask the question of if the western nations were so happily able to go charging into Iraq without U.N. approval, then could they not have done it in the case of Rwanda?
Or did Iraq have something that Rwanda didn't?
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faramir said:You mean aside from the WMD and al Qaeda terrorists ?
Neither of which have been found there BTW.
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In all of the countries mentioned, there has been underlying animosity between all involved, and it has been seething, especially during peaceful times. Remember what Clemenza said in the Godfather, they had to have a gangland war every couple of years to keep things in check? Seems like the UN has adopted that philosophy a lil bit...