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This is an emotional film, but it adds the balance of political self-interest and of the power of corruption that would incite the impoverished masses against one another to acquire individual wealth. What Paul quickly realizes, and what the viewer comes to understand, is that it is not about the masses whom are living in poverty and despair - although the rebel leaders do need the masses to accomplish their goals. Cheadle's character, who greased the system on both sides of the fence, stands helpless and disheartened when the action climaxes with violent murder of Rwanda's Tutsis.
He learns another lesson when, against his hope, the United Nations and the countries of the world fail to take action to help the Tutsis, who are dying by the thousands daily. There is almost a sense the killing is allowed to rage on because the world doesn't care about "black Africa." In fact, Nick Nolte, in the role of a U.S. UN Peacekeeping force, tells Paul, Cheadle's character, that no one cares because they are black. Nolte suggests...
The film doesn't make indictments of the Hutu, Tutsis, or of any particular nation. It makes a strong statement about greed and corruption of exploiting the masses in the name of greed and corruption. It shows the United Nations as an organization that spews rhetoric, but does little - as is being witnessed by the current genocide taking place in the Darfur region of Sudan.
As such, primordialism cannot fully be applied to the ethnic division between the Tutsis and Hutus groups during the intra-state conflict that dominated the genocide. On the other hand, social constructivism is slightly more applicable. Social constructivism is a sociological theory that implies that the formation of national identity and ethnic group formation is a consequence and creation based on Rwandan history. However, constructivism is based in political and societal
United Nations: Failures The United Nations is the result of an international policy experiment that aimed at bringing together the countries of the world in an attempt to avoid conflagrations such as the First and Second World wars from taking place again in the modern history of human kind. The loss of lives in the wars that marked the 20th century determined world leaders and in particular the five great powers
Operations Management Introduction to the Company Fiyeli Coffee is an artisan coffee roaster in a mid-sized city. The company operates with a wholesale-only business model, which allows it to focus on the high end restaurant and hotel trade in the state, along with a mail order retail business. Fiyeli also sells to select coffee shops, but most of its market is on the restaurant and hotel side. In the United States, the retail
Emergency and Disaster Management: Hurricanes Katrina and Ike In the recent decades, the United States of America has increasingly experienced various disasters not only from natural sources but also from industry and technology. The country has even faced deliberate disasters from terrorist sources. Unfortunately, there is no attenuation or lessening that is in sight at the moment. The predictions regarding the weather disturbances are increasing. There has been a continuation in
submitted, the Ivory Coast is set to swear in Alassane Ouattara as the country's new president (CNN, 2011, 1), ending over six months of internal turmoil that threatened to lead the country into outright civil war, and challenged the international community's ability and willingness to respond. Ouattara had been unable to take the presidency despite winning last November because losing incumbent Laurent Gbagbo refused to cede power (Ibid). On
8). Likewise, the Institute of Agriculture required a quorum of two-thirds of its members for voting purposes and for the balancing of votes according to the size of the budgetary contributions (Bowett, 1970). While this analysis of these early forms of public international unions is not complete, it does suggest that they were beginning to identify the wide range of interests involved in modern international commerce and what was required