Verified Document

Hotel Rwanda Summary Genocide In Hotel Rwanda Essay

Related Topics:

Hotel Rwanda Summary Genocide in Hotel Rwanda

Hotel Rwanda (2004) is a dramatic account of the obstacles Paul Rusesabagina, a Hutu hotelier, was forced to overcome to ensure the safety of not only his wife Tatiana, a Tutsi, and their children, but also of countless refugees of the Rwandan genocide of 1994. The film centers Rusesabagina's efforts to provide a safe haven at the Belgian-owned Hotel des Milles Collines in Kigali, Rwanda's capital, which is under constant threat of being overtaken by Interahamwe, the anti-Tutsi militia (Hotel Rwanda, 2004; Lovgren, 2004). Through the course of the film, it is made evident what factors contributed to the uprising and genocide in Rwanda that lasted from April 1994 until July 1994.

At the beginning of the film, which takes place before genocide breaks out, the Hotel des Milles Collines welcomes a BBC television camera crew who are in town to cover the recent peace agreement between the Hutus and the Tutsis. It is while Jack Daglish, played by Joaquin...

Daglish asks, "So, what is the actual difference between a Hutu and a Tutsi?" To which he is given the answer of "According to the Belgian colonists, the Tutsis are taller and more elegant. It was the Belgians that created the division… They picked people. . .those with thinner noses, lighter skin. They used to measure the width of people's noses. The Belgians used the Tutsis to run the country. Then, when they left, they left the power to the Hutus. And of course, the Hutus took revenge on the elite Tutsis for years of repression" (On "Hotel Rwanda" and Concerned Grandparents, 2010). This explanation thus establishes that the tension between the Hutus and Tutsis is not only political but also social. Furthermore, it is established that the conflict between the Hutus and Tutsis is rooted in a…

Sources used in this document:
References

Hotel Rwanda. (2004). Directed by Terry George. United States: United Artists/Lions Gate

Entertainment. Accessed 31 January 2013, from Netflix.

Lovgren, S. (2004, December 9). "Hotel Rwanda" portrays hero who fought genocide.

National Geographic News. Accessed 31 January 2013, from http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1209_041209_hotel_rwanda.html.
Page in Rwanda. Northwestern University. Accessed 31 January 2013, from http://blog.undergradresearch.northwestern.edu/worldisabook/2010/06/29/on-hotel-rwanda-and-concerned-grandparents/
Cite this Document:
Copy Bibliography Citation

Related Documents

Submitted, the Ivory Coast Is Set to
Words: 5711 Length: 18 Document Type: Research Paper

submitted, the Ivory Coast is set to swear in Alassane Ouattara as the country's new president (CNN, 2011, 1), ending over six months of internal turmoil that threatened to lead the country into outright civil war, and challenged the international community's ability and willingness to respond. Ouattara had been unable to take the presidency despite winning last November because losing incumbent Laurent Gbagbo refused to cede power (Ibid). On

Inter-Parliamentary Union and Its Role
Words: 16130 Length: 59 Document Type: Term Paper

8). Likewise, the Institute of Agriculture required a quorum of two-thirds of its members for voting purposes and for the balancing of votes according to the size of the budgetary contributions (Bowett, 1970). While this analysis of these early forms of public international unions is not complete, it does suggest that they were beginning to identify the wide range of interests involved in modern international commerce and what was required

Sign Up for Unlimited Study Help

Our semester plans gives you unlimited, unrestricted access to our entire library of resources —writing tools, guides, example essays, tutorials, class notes, and more.

Get Started Now