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In the film Hotel Rwanda, Paul rusesabagina is a hotel manager of the Mille Collines in Rwanda. On April 1994, the country of Rwanda fell victim to genocide and over 800,000 Rwandans were killed for over one hundred days. During the genocide, Paul took his family to the Mille Colline alongside hotel guests, other refugees and employees for their protection from the events occuring outside the hotel gates. It was Pauls job to keep everyone safe and calm during difficult times and to keep the…

As everyone knows, on the TPLF's manifesto outline showed that apart from capitalism and imperialism, the number one enemy of the Tigray people is Amhara. Actually, this is a pattern of massively murdering and displacing the Amharas for the last 27 years by the TPLF and its agents in every region in the country, but the recent gruesome massively attacked and cut off the young boy's private flesh in Benishangul is very disturbed and savagely cruel. This barbarous act emphatically shows that the…

A Hollywood feature film called Hotel Rwanda not only brought out the sentimental side of me but allowed me to get the basic understanding of what the idea of imperialism can do to a country – in this case Africa. In this movie, Paul’s main concern is for him family. His primary goal is to save his wife, a Tutsi, and must go to great lengths simply to keep her with him. However he realizes that it is more than his family. It was scary to comprehend the enormity of the situation in Africa when we…

Myanmar: On The Edge of Genocide The violence in Myanmar, formerly Burma, against the Rohingya Muslims is debatable. Some may call it the fault of fake media, but some may consider it on the brink of genocide. The violence in Myanmar should be considered on the verge of genocide as innocent people are being killed, villages and homes are being destroyed, and people are being forced to leave their homes and families to escape. The first piece of evidence that shows that there is a genocide…

Christians are targeted in some parts of the world. Christians in Nigeria suffered an attack on Christmas day, harming several with some even ending in death. The attack was on a church, and it was done by Islamist insurgents (USCCB Freedom 1). A Christian village in Egypt was devastated when their houses and shops were burned down, and the perpetrators tried to turn their church into a mosque or hospital after breaking into it. Christians are the targets for violence in Iraq as the U.S. pulls…

Prison conditions are worsening all across the world, especially within African countries, such as Rwanda. Rwandan prisons have an unhealthy environment — lack of space, mistreatment, and neglect — for the inmates that are locked up. The effects of the destructive conditions that inmates experience range in severity, from infected feet to death. In addition, these problems are not recent occurrences; these complications have been around for over 20 years. By looking at this issue from an ethical…

To remember the lives of the Rwandan people who lost their lives during the months of April to July 1994, the proposal of a non profit organization for Rwandan survivors was created. The goal of the non profit organization is to bring peace and tranquility to survivors even after 20 years of the genocide. The audience which were American citizens were sought to help these survivors attain harmony by donating and gaining awareness of the genocide. To effectively portray the organization as a way…

Loung Ung, the author of Lucky Child, was a survivor of the Cambodian Genocide that happened during the period between 1975 and 1979, when more than two million Cambodians were killed by the Khmer Rouge, which counted as nearly 25% of the country’s total population (p. xi). Every aspect of life was monitored and controlled by the Khmer Rouge, who was aiming to clear all their political threats and to create a utopian state (p. xii). Most of the citizens, including Loung and her family members,…

Karnig Panian’s “Goodbye Antoura” is a memoir of the Armenian Genocide that took place during the period of World War One. Panian reflects on his heartbreaking and shocking struggles he had to endure throughout the genocide. Being only five at the time of the deportation he was forced to be introduced to the loss of family, exhaustion, and severe starvation. The genocide was planned and administered by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian citizens of this mainly Turkish state from the year…

Moreover, Aghet is an influential documentary, portraying the annihilation of Armenians from 1915-1923 and the effects of the Turkish government's international campaign of genocide denial. The film highlights the Turkish authorities’ current policy of these crimes. It also delves into the ongoing campaign of denial that the Turkish government has mounted since these events occurred in World War I. Aghet includes a meticulous historical narrative of the events leading up to the genocide,…