I recently watched Hotel Rwanda. It takes place in Rwanda in 1994. There was a minority tribe in control and another tribe killed the president and then started a mass genocide. Around 1 million people were killed. It is a very good movie, but not an easy movie. A powerful movie, but a dark and horrible film.
The interesting thing about the movie is how eye opening it was about the west's treatment of the situation. Europe and the US basically just turned their backs on the situation. Mass genocide is happening and the peacekeepers we have in there, we pull out. I was all for going into Iraq and getting Saddam out of power, but then these situations come up in Africa and we just ignore them. That's not right.
Anyway, the movie is a movie of hope also. How people do more than they think they would when facing horrific circumstances. It's a movie that I think everyone should see. Although they could have made the movie graphically violent, they did not. It has a PG-13 rating and although a couple of scenes are shocking, overall it resists going graphic.
This happened over ten years ago, but that doesn't mean that things like this aren't still going on in Africa. Now we have places like Sudan, and many other African countries where atrocities are occurring. You can find information here and here.
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I'm not going to do my whole tirade thing on this again. You have to watch "Ghosts of Rwanda" from PBS. Basically it comes down to the fact that Americans and Europeans don't feel that a black/brown life is as valuable as a white life. This becomes painfully obvious when looking at the debate over Iraq. Critics say we should just pull out. Screw the countless numbers of Iraqis that will be murdered wholesale.
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