Intro:
The film Hotel Rwanda (2004) was significant in representing and describing the Genocide in Rwanda; thus the UN's failure to prevent the atrocities that took place there. This was a time when the western world looked at the acts of genocide and its evidence in Rwanda and just presumed living peaceably. In a period of hundred days during 1994, it was estimated that over 800,000 people were slaughtered as a result of the hutu militia and constant battle between the two groups. Despite the humanitarian effort to protect the victims of the genocide, the world failed to stop this injustice and recognize Rwanda as a “genocide”.
Film Description: The Story follows the experience of the Mille Collines hotel Manager Paul Rusesabagina who has …show more content…
The idea was to annihilate all the tutsi people starting with their leaders. Starting in April 7, 1994 hutu gunmen systematically began tracking down hutu moderates and tutsi leader.() In the film the political conflict was only a message spread through the radio. The kitchen staff at the hotel here that there tutsi leader and hutu moderates are killed which lead to the pending chaos and disorder to come. At this point of the film the actor of Romeo Dallaire and his troops, are told by the UN forces not to intervene or use armed conflict leaving many to get …show more content…
At the beginning of the film the regular life for Paul Rusesabagina and his family was shown and by the end there is chaos, showing how fast the event escalated. When Rusesabagina was at the hotel and ran out of supplies to appease the worried refugees, he went to go get supplies from the another hotel of which on his way there and back the car got stuck on hundreds and hundreds of bodies that lined the streets, just giving a snapshot into the massacres extent. The film showed the chaos of the raids and massacres and the constant fear faced by the tutsi people and the tutsi people living at the hotel. This is an accurate reflection of the events that took place because it demonstrated how long it takes for the massacre to occur without intervention. Within a few years over 800,000 people were killed, including the hundred days of
The film Hotel Rwanda (2004) was significant in representing and describing the Genocide in Rwanda; thus the UN's failure to prevent the atrocities that took place there. This was a time when the western world looked at the acts of genocide and its evidence in Rwanda and just presumed living peaceably. In a period of hundred days during 1994, it was estimated that over 800,000 people were slaughtered as a result of the hutu militia and constant battle between the two groups. Despite the humanitarian effort to protect the victims of the genocide, the world failed to stop this injustice and recognize Rwanda as a “genocide”.
Film Description: The Story follows the experience of the Mille Collines hotel Manager Paul Rusesabagina who has …show more content…
The idea was to annihilate all the tutsi people starting with their leaders. Starting in April 7, 1994 hutu gunmen systematically began tracking down hutu moderates and tutsi leader.() In the film the political conflict was only a message spread through the radio. The kitchen staff at the hotel here that there tutsi leader and hutu moderates are killed which lead to the pending chaos and disorder to come. At this point of the film the actor of Romeo Dallaire and his troops, are told by the UN forces not to intervene or use armed conflict leaving many to get …show more content…
At the beginning of the film the regular life for Paul Rusesabagina and his family was shown and by the end there is chaos, showing how fast the event escalated. When Rusesabagina was at the hotel and ran out of supplies to appease the worried refugees, he went to go get supplies from the another hotel of which on his way there and back the car got stuck on hundreds and hundreds of bodies that lined the streets, just giving a snapshot into the massacres extent. The film showed the chaos of the raids and massacres and the constant fear faced by the tutsi people and the tutsi people living at the hotel. This is an accurate reflection of the events that took place because it demonstrated how long it takes for the massacre to occur without intervention. Within a few years over 800,000 people were killed, including the hundred days of