/movies/Hotel Rwanda
Everyone should watch this movie. I was 13 when the genocide was going on; I vaguely remember it, but never really understood it. I've heard it talked about, usually in the context of "UN" and "failure," but that never struck home for me until tonight. We, our grand peaceful institutions, our democracy, our humanity, failed utterly. We failed when there was no moral ambiguity. We failed when the cost was trivial. We failed, probably, because they were African. And I don't see any reason that we wouldn't again. Perhaps we have, very recently.
The judgement that everyone should watch this movie is not about it being good, or bad, but necessary.
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patty wrote
I found the book "a day by the pool in Kigali" to contain an even more raw and terrible account, although semi-fictional. Romeo Dallaire's role in the genocide (head of UN in Rwanda at the time, and a Canadian) is something to think about. Hoping to read his "Shake hands with the devil" soon.
