mass genocide *movie* hotel rwanda

**crackerjacker** · April 16th, 2005, 04:50 AM

i saw hotel rwanda and just wanna know if anyone else did?
read the review here
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/.../41213001/1023

In 1994 a massacre occured where one million people were murdered.
It is also a well known fact that the United Nations knew about the atrocities and nothing was being done to help these people.

Taking from this excerpt *here is a United Nations "presence" in Rwanda, represented by Col. Oliver (Nick Nolte). He sees what is happening, informs his superiors, asks for help and intervention, and is ignored. Paul Rusesabagina informs the corporate headquarters in Brussels of the growing tragedy, but the hotel in Kigali is not the chain's greatest concern. Finally it comes down to these two men acting as free-lancers to save more than a thousand lives they have somehow become responsible for.*

**Digital Bliss** · April 16th, 2005, 07:16 AM

see this is the shit im talking about people are all worried about the pope and terri shivo and shit like this happens all the fucking time and no one says anything about it good post cj

SanDiegoKid · April 16th, 2005, 11:06 AM

I liked it. Similar to HBO's "Sometimes in April".

**evilmegaman** · April 16th, 2005, 11:23 AM

the president of that country was just in my town about two days ago :)

**Mels_Smileys45** · April 16th, 2005, 11:39 AM

It was big news in 1994, so big they've made a movie about it. I think some people were just too busy playing their Sega Genesis to even notice.

I've heard its a good movie.

SanDiegoKid · April 16th, 2005, 11:51 AM

I was playing Super Nintendo and owning the Street Fighter II machine at the arcade.

policy_editor · April 16th, 2005, 02:11 PM

Originally Posted by Digital Bliss

see this is the shit im talking about people are all worried about the pope and terri shivo and shit like this happens all the fucking time and no one says anything about it good post cj

Religion is the greatest form of genocide the world has ever known.

**Christoph** · April 16th, 2005, 02:27 PM

I saw it yesterday...its one of the best movies I ever saw

**Potato** · April 16th, 2005, 02:31 PM

A friend of mine tells me on a daily basis how wonderful this movie is... haven't seen it yet.

**grab_grab_the_haddock** · April 16th, 2005, 02:37 PM

It's easy to pin the blame the UN as an organisation. It helps us wash our hands of the whole debacle. In reality the UN only represents the will of the governments of the world, including our own.

I guess if there was oil in Rwanda things might have been different.

policy_editor · April 16th, 2005, 04:49 PM

Originally Posted by grab_grab_the_haddock

It's easy to pin the blame the UN as an organisation. It helps us wash our hands of the whole debacle. In reality the UN only represents the will of the governments of the world, including our own.

I guess if there was oil in Rwanda things might have been different.

You bet your ass it would be different if this was the case the US would have 100,000 thousand troops over there and a whole slew of Cheney's ceo buddies companies raping any oil wells they have, and setting up a fake govt. to make it look like everythings on the up and up. Iraqs the model for this and when there oil peaks look for Bush to submit another oil producing country in the same fashion.

SanDiegoKid · April 16th, 2005, 05:20 PM

This is the flick that BayTSP nailed me on.

policy_editor · April 16th, 2005, 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by kleenr

This is the flick that BayTSP nailed me on.

really? using bittorent or edonkey they dont seem to be watching gnutella for some reason although i may be wrong on that.

**CRLocky** · April 16th, 2005, 05:32 PM

I saw it. It's an incredible movie.

A tornado rips through a town a few hours away... wow.. a tornado, it'd be cool to see a tornado...
Hurricanes ravage states in the SE, they see homes destroyed and people sifting through rubble... but they dont' know what it's like, they're thankful they don't live there.

People hear of genocide, starvation, suffering... but until they see it, they don't really believe it.

policy_editor · April 16th, 2005, 06:36 PM

im actually standing by with a spacesuit ready to help in the cleanup after bin laden sets off 1 or both of the suitcase nukes he bought off the russian mob.