Hotel Rwanda
 

Has anyone seen this movie? When we were in Africa last year, I was trying to buy something to read in the airport as we were getting ready to fly back home. I found a book called, "An Ordinary Man" and snatched it up right before the plane left. It was such an amazing story, but I didn't realize that it was the true story that "Hotel Rwanda" was based on. Tonight, Zac and I finally watched the movie and it made me cry at the cruelty of people and how America just turned their backs on them.

Zac has been assigned to read this same book before he starts college at MTSU this year. Then Paul R. (can't spell his name) from the story is going to speak at their orientation session on Sunday the 26th. I wish I could be there to hear him!! He saved over 1200 people from being slaughtered in the genocide in 1994 by hiding them in his hotel.

Yes I saw it, though not all of it. Pretty good and eye opening

Very true, Canada did as well.
General Romeo Delaire I think that is how you spelt that name was a Canadian General remembering how he was forced by orders from higher ups, UN and otherwise who told him not to interfere with the genocide that was going on.
He suffered a nervous breakdown because of it, and he wrote about it in his memoirs called, "Deal with the Devil"

I am not surprised that there wasn't interest there, after all there is no oil in Rawanda.

Sad.

That's true. One American reporter in the movie made the comment to Paul R. that Americans would hear about it on the radio, stop for a moment and say, "that's so sad" and then go back to eating their dinner. And that's exactly what happened. I really had not thought that much about it until I read the book and since then, have bought a couple more by people who were survivors. Now I want to get the book you are talking about too. I will look online for it. Thanks!

Here is his link to his website and the book is called,"shake hands with the devil!"

http://www.romeodallaire.com/

I am interested to hear what Zac thinks of it.

Thanks, Ron. I actually had just found it on Amazon. I'm going to order it. I also read a book called "Left to Tell" about a Catholic gal who survived the holocaust in Rwanda by staying for over 90 days in someone's bathroom with about 7 other women. The room was only about 12 square feet. Her story is amazing!

Interestingly enough, she talks about praying constantly in her mind, because they could make no noise. She would worship for hours, and of course she also had her rosary. But she talks in the book about how in her mind, as she prayed intensely, she would hear herself praying in other languages silently. Even when she wrote the book, you could tell that she didn't understand that it was speaking in tongues.

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I saw this movie I thought it was very moving in many ways........

I watched the movie with some friends when it first came out. Terrible tragedy. It's sad that America and other countries turned a blind eye to what happened.

Some say the same thing is happening all over again with Darfur or the Sudan.

That was a good movie.

I read a book recently about the slave trade in Sudan that was written by a survivor of it. She had been traded to an Arab family in Europe who misused and abused her for years until she finally escaped. It was unbelievable that this stuff still goes on. This kind of thing really moves me and makes me weep.

great story, so sad, good movie, dt:hypercoffee

I met some young people that are christians one of the times I was in the states. They told me Hotel Rwanda was no comparison to the real suffering...so if not...imagine what these kids saw...they wept all during the service we were in...
America as a whole has no ideal what many countries are going through...

This movie was very moving! What a great man!

The book "An Ordinary Man" is so much more in detail than the movie. If they had shown all the stuff in the movie, it would definitely have been rated "R" and not PG-13.

I haven't seen the movie, but I watched and recorded a PBS documetary on the whole issue. The canadian General D. was interviewed extensively and described the demonic look in the eyes of the murderers. He could tell who was murdering people just by the look in their eyes. Many murders were caught on video and shown in the documentary. I believe they were hutus hacking the other tribe to death with machetes. I also saw a PBS interview of the lady hiding in the bathroom of a hutu pastor even though they were from the opposing tribe. There were some missionary heroes that saved many lives. I think the whole incident was a catholic/protestant conflict as well as tribal. Too bad Clinton dropped the ball. The most disgraceful episode from his tenure. It was only after the UN withdrew that the murder started. If the UN had stayed, all of the genocide could have been prevented.