Word: hutu
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George ambitiously attempts to document the complicated history of the genocide through the true story of one courageous and little-known hero. Don Cheadle plays Paul Rusesabagina, a Hutu hotelier, who turns his hotel into a refugee camp for both Tutsi and Hutu refugees. One man’s courage in the face of extreme evil should ideally inspire audiences, but George’s blend of documentary, biopic and pseudo-political commentary is ultimately too heavy-handed to stir indolent viewers...
...film is strongest at it is most brutal and real. The terrifyingly cruel Hutu militia, repeated images of sobbing Rwandan children literally pulled off of the evacuated Caucasians and scenes littered with corpses create an emotional context for the movie in the absence of captivating characters...
...film is strongest at it is most brutal and real. The terrifyingly cruel Hutu militia, repeated images of sobbing Rwandan children literally pulled off of the evacuated Caucasians and scenes littered with corpses create an emotional context for the movie in the absence of captivating characters...
...April 1994, he was manager of the luxurious Hotel Mille Collines in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. Hundreds of Tutsi civilians sought refuge inside the walls of his hotel. As genocidal Hutu extremists massed along the Mille Collines’ perimeter, Rusesabagina called for help. The US and its allies in the UN Security Council shamelessly ignored Rusesabagina’s cry. The top UN peacekeeper in Rwanda at the time, Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, recounts in his memoirs: “the people in the Mille Collines were like live bait being toyed with by a wild animal...
...story of the Rwandan genocide casts most UN apparatchiks as heartless bureaucrats. Current UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan—then head of the organization’s peacekeeping department—squashed an operation that would have seized Hutu extremists’ weapons caches. (Although that didn’t stop Harvard from awarding Annan an honorary degree earlier this year...