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...field. Eight people wearing sashes striped in yellow, blue and green - the national colors of Rwanda - sit behind a wooden table. There's a festive appearance to the proceedings that the words of Augustin Ntirushwamaboko belie. The 38-year-old farmer stands ramrod straight as he describes dragging a Tutsi man from the bushes in Zivu in 1994 and bludgeoning him to death. "When I hit him with the club, he didn't die," Ntirushwamaboko explains. "I had an ax. I hit him with the blunt side on his head." Ntirushwamaboko is one of up to a million Hutu...
...houses, crops and cattle, and mentioned his accomplices. These episodes roused fierce accusations, too. Murdered family members can't be replaced; cows and other chattels can. Looters are required to make restitution. As the winners of the brief civil war that followed the genocide, the current government of Tutsi President Paul Kagame set the terms of the gacaca trials. For many, this type of justice is incomplete. The gacaca courts will not consider accusations against the Rwandan Patriotic Front...
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...