Word: tutsis
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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...
Between April and June 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days. The genocide, of the Tutsi minority by the Hutu majority, was the culmination of long-simmering tensions between two ethnic groups whose differences were exacerbated by Belgian colonists in the early twentieth century. Following the assassination of a Hutu president, the Tutsi became the targets of a reactionary attempt at organized ethnic cleansing...
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...
...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...
Nonetheless, almost all viewers of Hotel should come away with a few common conclusions. First, at the time of the Rwandan conflict, then-UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali described the situation as “Hutus killing Tutsis and Tutsis killing Hutus.” Dallaire calls this “the myth of the double genocide.” Indeed, the ethnic Tutsi rebels who liberated Kigali at the end of the civil war certainly did commit reprehensible atrocities. But Rwanda—like Darfur—was a one-sided slaughter...