Watching "Hotel Rwanda",...

[Just Me]

,...leaves me feeling so sick,...and so terribly sad. :cry:

Greed and hatred murders humanity,...destroys any sense of humanity.

[MasonJar]

1. That is one fantastic movie. It is both devastating and uplifting.

[Minstrel Boy]

2. Here's a DVD documentary you might want to see:

From the Amazon review, which says it's not yet released, but I just saw it on the shelf in my corner Blockbuster (I dunno, maybe it's not yet released in the US):

A vital document in any understanding of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Shake Hands with the Devil looks at the disaster through the eyes of a hugely conflicted observer. Romeo Dallaire was the Canadian general commanding the handcuffed U.N. forces in Rwanda (think Nick Nolte in Hotel Rwanda) who pleaded with his superiors to intervene and possibly stave off the slaughter, and then watched helplessly as the country went to hell. The film follows Dallaire's return to Rwanda in 2004, as he tries to exorcise the demons that have haunted him--he suffered a breakdown and suicidal depression after his service in Africa. Director Peter Raymont also widens the focus to discuss the issues behind the slaughter, and he witheringly condemns the world's failure to act. (The U.S. public was distracted by the O.J. Simpson trial, the movie reminds us.) The images are startling: horrific video of murder, beautiful shots of the present-day countryside, Dallaire's visit to a monument containing tables crowded with human skulls. The images are harsh, but Dallaire's memories are equally terrible, such as his recollection of the smell of corpses stacked in the street. This articulate and still-tortured man is an important guide to a horrific event

[Just Me]

3. What normal human being wouldn't face a breakdown,...

,...in face of such unimaginable, barbaric horror. :shrug:

The strength of those who suffered through such a tragedy is astonishing. I don't imagine myself having such strength.

[Minstrel Boy]

4. I remember a few years ago hearing the report that Dallaire

had been pulled, drunk, floating down the Ottawa River. It's been a miracle he's survived. He's a true hero.

I can't imagine seeing what he saw. His eyes still look haunted.

[Just Me]

5. Over a million people slaughtered by the fuel of "hate radio" financed by

U.S. corporacrats. :cry:

Our corporateers sure have an evil-backing history!!!

Fuckers!!!