Terry George Hotel Rwanda

From the centuries, world has witnessed a number of bloody wars, holocausts, carnages and cruel genocide, which shattered the lives of millions of innocent people. After witnessing the mass killings and its aftermath consequences, world has not yet learned a lesson and still on the same path of destruction. ‘Hotel Rwanda’, a movie by Terry George, tries to convey the same message to save the world harmony and to maintain social integrity and peace, else the world should ready to witness a massive destruction. This movie is based on the one of the world’s fastest and atrocious historical genocide in Rwanda in 1994. It depicts the true events around the genocide experienced by a hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina played by famous Hollywood actor

The all organs of this hate media i.e. announcers, journalists, reporters, broadcaster and media executives, etc. played a crucial part in laying the base for slaughter. There were two radio stations and one local newspaper ‘Kangura’ in Rwanda that time. One was government owned local radio station, Radio Rwanda and other was private radio station Radio-Télévision Libre des Milles Collines (RTLM), which was owned by Hutu extremists Ferdinand Nahimana and Joseph Serugendu who had political and economic connections that they wanted to maintain. As most of the Rwandan community was illiterate, radio was like the voice of God; it was the only important means of broadcasting for the government (Dellaire, 16). Both the radio stations worked as a catalyst in the carnage and were used as a weapon by the Hutus extremists to execute the mass killings. RTLM called on all Hutus to ‘rise up as a single man’ or ‘would exterminate the Tutsi from the globe…. make them disappear once and all”. These anti-Tutsi messages incited the Hutu community for mass participation in ethnic cleansing of the Tutsi as well as the Hutus, who were either helping them or not participating the carnage to kill Tutsi (Forges, 48). In one scene of the film, one announcer over the radio announced, “Good Hutus of Rwanda, beware! Watch your neighbor. Identify these cockroaches. Then rise up and stamp out this murderous infestation...” (Hotel Rwanda). Hutu Leaders used violent language and the hate terms like inyengi or cockroach for the Tutsi over the radio and persuaded and incited the mob to exterminate Tutsi and moderate Hutus. They guide them on air by giving them specific directions to their hiding places like churches, hotels and mosques etc. In another scene, the radio announces “….we must destroy an