Violence In Hotel Rwanda

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The Horror of Genocide Hotel Rwanda is an amazing movie and everyone should watch because it is very important. Watching this movie makes you feel the victim's pain and sorrows. The main character Paul (Don Cheadle) is a Hutu and he is a manger at luxury hotel, he decides to risk his life by protecting Tutsi people in his hotel. This movie is based on actual events in Rwanda's capital city of Kigali during the 1994 civil genocide. The genocide was based on two ethnic groups, the Hutu and the Tutsi. The Rwanda genocide was sparked immediately after the president of the republic, Habyarimana, was shot down in a plane. After that, the Rwandan army began the most intense, bloody slaughter of humanity in the history. As a result of the genocide, …show more content…

Most American foreign policy makers considered ethnic violence the norm in Africa, a continent they had no economic or political interests in, especially south of the Sahara. Nonetheless, Paul protected so many Tutsi refugees, by allowing them to stay at his hotel. He hopes for an international intervention to stop the slaughter, and provide safety for his hotel guests. Unfortunately, the UN troops drive up to the hotel, and boarded only the foreigners and they abandoned the Rwandans. Sadly, the situation got worse and later when all the water supplies are cut off; the guests were forced to start using the water from the swimming pool for all their uses. …show more content…

Every soldier that we send off to war is someone's father, brother, husband, and son. See how hard it is on the families of the army now? People are pulled away from home, kids don’t have fathers. And every time our troops go into an area of conflict, there is a chance they will be killed. How do you explain that to a mother grieving the death of her child? That while every other nation did nothing? It is hard to die for strangers. It is one thing to put your life on the line for the sake of your family and your country. It is harder to do it for

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