Hotel Rwanda is a movie released in 2004 and is inspired by the Rwanda genocide in 1994. The plot of Hotel Rwanda focuses on conflicts between the Abahutu (Hutu) and Abatutsi (Tutsi) cultures in Rwanda, Africa. The president of Rwanda, Juvénal Habyarimana, and the Burundian president, Cyprien Ntaryamira, were killed after their airplane was shot down by rebels. This event started the physical conflict between the Hutu and Tutsi culture in October 1, 1990 through August 4, 1993.
The main characters of the film are Paul Rusesabagina; a manager at the Hôtel des Mille Collines, his wife Tatiana and their three children, Elys, Diane and Roger. Paul and Tatiana face backlash from the community during the Rwanda Civil war because they are married and they are Hutu and Tutsi respectively. Paul’s family, friends, neighbors and close associates are constantly in danger of being killed by the antagonist Georges Rutaganda; the leader and arms supplier of the Interahamwe Hutu militia rebels. During the Civil war, Paul uses his connections acquired from working at the hotel …show more content…
In the article “The Economist: Humanitarian?” France and Rwanda, France admits to being an arms dealer and defense trainer for the Habyarimana regime in Rwanda for years; arguably inciting confrontation between the two African sub-cultures. The poor were not invisible to the rebels because they were easy targets and a part of their hate agenda. They were not invisible to Paul and his family because they were a part of the demographic targeted by war criminals. Part of the political economy of Rwanda under the Second Republic is that the southern region as a whole, Hutu as well as Tutsi, was disfavored by the government, whose leaders came from northern Rwanda (Prunier 1995). As a result, the government did not help with crop failure or provide aid and
The main characters of the film are Paul Rusesabagina; a manager at the Hôtel des Mille Collines, his wife Tatiana and their three children, Elys, Diane and Roger. Paul and Tatiana face backlash from the community during the Rwanda Civil war because they are married and they are Hutu and Tutsi respectively. Paul’s family, friends, neighbors and close associates are constantly in danger of being killed by the antagonist Georges Rutaganda; the leader and arms supplier of the Interahamwe Hutu militia rebels. During the Civil war, Paul uses his connections acquired from working at the hotel …show more content…
In the article “The Economist: Humanitarian?” France and Rwanda, France admits to being an arms dealer and defense trainer for the Habyarimana regime in Rwanda for years; arguably inciting confrontation between the two African sub-cultures. The poor were not invisible to the rebels because they were easy targets and a part of their hate agenda. They were not invisible to Paul and his family because they were a part of the demographic targeted by war criminals. Part of the political economy of Rwanda under the Second Republic is that the southern region as a whole, Hutu as well as Tutsi, was disfavored by the government, whose leaders came from northern Rwanda (Prunier 1995). As a result, the government did not help with crop failure or provide aid and