Monday, January 17, 2005
ALL YOU PEOPLE OUT THERE: i saw hotel rwanda this weekend, and i've gotta say--it was pretty incredible. the only thing that is kind of strange about it is that it's all in english. i have no idea how historically accurate it is, but it is very moving.
UPDATE: here is a review of the movie (LvM), which links to this 2003 article about the situation in rwanda and the surrounding countries in the wake of the genocide. according to the article, france has been less than helpful:
UPDATE: here is a review of the movie (LvM), which links to this 2003 article about the situation in rwanda and the surrounding countries in the wake of the genocide. according to the article, france has been less than helpful:
The most notable of the enemies are the French, who have never forgiven Kagame for winning the war against the French-backed regime responsible for the genocide, and for thwarting the French military Operation Turquoise which occupied a swathe of western Rwanda trying to preserve its clients. Then in 1996 the Rwandese military attacked the refugee camps in eastern Zaire which were controlled by the genocidaires of 1994, where active military training for another genocide carried on under the noses of international organisations. More than a million peasants walked home and were resettled in an extraordinary feat of organisation for any country, never mind one so very poor.
