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The film thus shows an ordinary man, who, for the love of a woman, committed an extraordinary act of personal courage and selflessness. It shows much like Steven Spielburg's "Schindler's List" how ordinary people -- businessmen and husbands alike -- can do the amazing, when called upon by historical and personal needs. However, the true events depicted in the film are also somewhat shaming to the contemporary American viewer. It is saddening to realize how much of the events that transpired occurred during relatively recent years, and received almost no press, except the occasional mention in a tiny corner colum of the newspaper, when far less disasterous local events received coverage.
The film is horrifying, but not because it is graphic. It is poetic in its cinematorgraphy as well as realistic. For example, sometimes the director focuses on the weapons rather than the bloody bodies of those who have become the victims of the government and mililita...
Sometimes the film merely shows the cold and calculated expressions of the Hutu extremists rather than the faces of those who are soon to become their victims. Some of the violence is also reported secondhand, such as the stident government calls for more warfare over the radio or the testimony of international aid workers. The faces of the workers, who are horrified of what they have witnessed, speak as loudly as the images of the violence.
But because so much of the most graphic violence is of children, the events that are violently and explicitly shown stay in the viewer's mind -- for example, when the main protagonist Paul discovers his son in a state of hysteria, after the boy has found his Tutsi friend murdered. Paul resolves to protect his family and protect all Tutsis who seek his aid. One can only hope as a viewer, that, facing the horror of children and people in need, one would be able to show such courage, and to do the same.
Rwanda and Child Soldering There are approximately 300,000 child soldier in the world today and 120,000 of these are present in Africa, Rwanda in one of the places in Africa with a very high ratio of child soldiers. These children are abducted and then brain washed and manipulated in order to make them killer, spies, messengers etc. They are given fire arms at such early age and trained to not feel
Rwanda is a country in eastern Africa where hundreds of thousands of Africans were massacred in one of the most troublesome time in international history. The book, "We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families" by Phillip Gourevitch (1998) tells an all too true account of the atrocities that occurred during this very unstable time in their past. Two opposing ethnic groups, the Tutsis
Rwanda The UN's role in the Rwanda genocide The Rwandan genocide took place during a civil war that nearly destroyed the poor, African nation. The civil conflict was waged between two ethnic groups known as the Tutsis and Hutu. An estimated 800,000 people were killed, mostly Tutsi, and the hands of the ethnic Hutu (UN admits Rwanda genocide failure, 2000, BBC). Initially, the UN had assumed some responsibility for attempting to keep
The Kambanda case would officially begin only three years after the commitment of his crimes. According to a timeline on the trial, "Jean Kambanda is arrested in Nairobi, Kenya on 18th July 1997 and transferred to Arusha, to the International Penal Court for Rwanda on the same day." Thus would begin a remarkable trial, somewhat unprecedented, but arguably driven by the conditions which would be established by the events
Rwanda Genocide and Stories The majority of richer, stronger countries in the world failed to intervene during the genocide in Rwanda because they were part of the United Nations. While the UN does get involved in genocide issues, it is forbidden for other countries to get involved in internal disputes if there is no genocide taking place (Nyankanzi, 1998). Because the UN was not completely clear on what was taking place
While this still falls far short of the average of U.S.$34 for developing countries and U.S.$12 for sub-Saharan Africa, it represents tremendous progress for a country whose health infrastructure was virtually annihilated by the war." Conclusion: For a country that was virtually wiped out during an atrocious civil war in 1994, Rwanda's progress has been impressive especially where economy and education are concerned. However the reason this progress has failed to