Hotel Rwanda

[Sherri]

Originally Posted by chaotic_resolve

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.

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.

[DividedThigh]

great story, so sad, good movie, dt

[Sister Alvear]

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...

[Monkeyman]

Originally Posted by Sherri

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.

This movie was very moving! What a great man!

[Sherri]

Originally Posted by Sister Alvear

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...

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.

[Dedicated Mind]

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.