any form of war can never be worse than civil war. it is an internal war within a country. it's freaks me out thinking the next morning when i woke up, my used-to-be friendly neighbour would be chasing after my life because we belonged to different ethnic groups. many years of friendship and peace that had been built based on the foundation of trust and respect were gone because they could not accept the differences between them. what was worse was the media in Rwanda was encouraging the Hutu to kill all the Tutsi. what was the world becoming to? how could one possible encourage another to take away innocent lives because they do not belong to the same ethnic group??!!! how could they bear the heart to kill their fellow countrymen who were their family, friends, or even neighbours? where had all the national education (if they have) and the propaganda gone to?
the government and external forces failed to maintain peace within Rwanda. they were unable or refused to send help to Rwanda because they were black. what a ridiculous reason! i hate the white superiority. have not they learnt from their lessons that they should STOP thinking that the other races are inferior to them? the whites were actually able to return to their country from Rwanda safe and sound because their countries were only willing to help their own country people and not sent help to save the blacks. the movie showed a scene which the UN actually allowed a dog to board the bus to drive them to the international airport while the blacks were standing at the entrance of the hotel, staring helplessly at the buses. it is trying to imply that the blacks were worse than a beast. why were they drawing such a clear line between the different races in the world. we are all humans!! they would rather save a dog than a human. what were they thinking of???!!!
besides, corruption filled the air in Rwanda. the lead aka the hero, Paul Rusesabagina had to bribe the officials who came to his hotel so that he would receive help from them when he needed them. he had to stuff money and all the valuables to the Hutu general in order to save his neighbours, of some were tutsi. he was able to accept the tutsi as friends, so why could not the others do so too? one of his hutu friends, whom i believed was one of the leaders of the civil strife actually tempted him to join the hutu rebel forces so that he could save his family since his wife was a tutsi, so she maybe killed by the hutu one day if they captured her. he even tricked him to take the back route back to the hotel because he claimed that the route was safe. the way back to hotel was bumpy but he could not see where he was heading to as the air was misty. he only found out the truth when he got off the van and to his horror, he saw millions of bodies lying on the road. the hutu had carried out their massive killings at the village.
as i said, he was the hero of the movie. together with one of the UN officials, he brought everyone at the hotel, both tutsi and hutu, about 800 of them to the UN camp at the boarders. they were saved but they suffered great losses, emtionally and physically. they lost their property, family members, friends, everything that they had built in Rwanda. they needed to recover and be able to stand up again. all these required courage. however, it took paul a even greater courage to risk his own life to save people whom he did not know and may put his life and his family's lives at risk.
once again, i did not cry during the movie though i have to admit it was a super touching movie that moved many to tears. as quoted from zhai, i am a stone. =D
btw, shan is back in singapore. yeah!!! we went out today to meet up and chit chat and then only me and zhai went to watch the movie. ya....
"thankful that i can still breathe"
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