Violence in Rwanda

Violence in Rwanda

Rwanda is a small country located in central Africa. It is bordered by

Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania.

One of the most terrible ethnic conflicts in our days was the Rwanda

genocide, back in 1990 in the African country of Rwanda two tribes

faught each other within the same territory, the rest of the world

strangely ignored the masacre thousands of people were killed. The

masacre lasted 100 days and almost 1 million people died, even though

the Rwanda government asked other countries for help or militar

support the international community did not interfere in the conflict

and choose to ignore the masacre of Hutu’s and Tutsis.

“Hotel Rwanda” is a story based on this tragedy and it shows the crude

and terrible reality thousands of people had to face in Rwanda and in

other African countries that are not an interesting target of oil or

resources and therefore have to survive their tragedies alone. The

movie is about a common family man who’s only hope is to save his

family from the civil war, he is Paul Rusesabagina the manager of the

Mille Collines Hotel. The conflict is among two tribes that have been

living in the same territory for thousands of years the hutus and the

tutsi. Paul is a hutu however he is married to Tatiana a tutsi woman

therefore his children and family are tutsis too and this puts them in

danger of being killed or kidnapped by the hutu army that is

determined to eliminate the tutsi people.

Rwanda’s society is divided and Paul has to protect his family, he

like hundreds of hutus and tutsis have hope that the international

community will interfere and stop the conflict before more people are

killed. He trusts the UN organization and trusts american and british

forces however he looses hope when he realizes international forces

are there to save foreign citizens and diplomats but not hutus or

tutsis. Paul helps up to 1268 hutu and tutsis refugues and helps