...turned their backs on the country of Rwanda, while Hutu extremists slaughtered almost a million Tutsis. George and Keir Pearson wrote the movie Hotel Rwanda to help expose the injustices felt by the people of Rwanda during this time. It is through the use of Colonel Oliver’s role within the movie that the lack of humanitarian intervention in the Rwandan genocide is shown. His actions as a liaison officer for the UN, as well as his unbiased views, make Colonel Oliver the perfect character to unearth the reasons behind the international community’s inaction towards the Rwandan massacre. Early on in the movie, it is noted that Canadian officer Colonel Oliver is acting on behalf of the wishes of the United Nations. This is initially appreciated in a scene with a journalist. In response to her inquiry as to whether or not the UN planned on stopping the Rwandan bloodshed, the Colonel replied, “We're here as peacekeepers, not as peacemakers. My orders are not to intervene”. This statement shows the United Nations resistance to the use of firearms shortly after the massacre in Somalia took place. The failure of the UN seen in Somalia was accounted largely to the contradictory use of weapons within a peacekeeping mission. This argument is again supported by Colonel Officer as he is quoted saying, “The government and the army are fallen into the example of what happened to the Americans in Somalia”. As a result, the peacekeeping forces within Rwanda, led by the Colonel, were prohibited...
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..._____/15 NAME: ______________________________ Hotel Rwanda Movie Assignment Answer these questions on a separate piece of paper while watching the movie. First, take notes while watching the movie; then, rewrite your notes into complete sentences that answer these questions: 1. What role did Tatiana Rusesabagina play in shaping Paul’s actions? 2. Who else influenced Paul’s decisions? 3. How did Paul’s definition of family expand to include the community later on in the film? 4. How and why does Paul’s attitude change over the course of the movie? 5. How would you characterize his level of personal responsibility and investment as events unfolded? 6. How would you describe Paul’s level of empowerment throughout the movie? Explain. Homework for next class: On a separate piece of paper write a paragraph where you explain how the colonization of Rwanda by the Belgians connects to the massacre and the conditions of the people today. You may use details from the movie, the timeline, and outside research to compose your answer. I expect that you use three examples to support your ideas. _____/15 NAME: ______________________________ Hotel Rwanda Movie Assignment Answer these questions on a separate piece of paper while watching the movie. First, take notes while watching the movie; then, rewrite your notes into complete sentences that answer these questions: 1. What role did Tatiana Rusesabagina play in shaping Paul’s...
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...Hotel Rwanda is the true story of genocide of Tutsi people at the hands of Hutu extremist. During the genocide Paul Rusesabagina the manager of the Sabena Hotel des Mille Collines is a Hutu who provides shelter for over a 1,000 Tutsi refugees. His wife Tatiana is also a Tutsi who helps Paul provide shelter and comfort for the refugee’s. As the political situation in the country worsens, Paul and his family observe neighbors being killed in ethnic violence. Paul curries favor with people of influence, bribing them with money and alcohol, seeking to maintain sufficient influence to keep his family safe. When civil war erupts and a Rwandan Army officer threatens Paul and his neighbors, Paul barely negotiates their safety, and brings everyone to the hotel. More refugees come to the hotel from the overburdened United Nations camp, the Red Cross, and orphanages. Paul must divert the Hutu soldiers, care for the refugees, be a source of strength to his family, and maintain the appearance of a functioning high-class hotel, as the situation becomes more violent. Even with the, United Nations presence at the time of the genocide, they were not authorized to use any force to protect the Tutsi people, as they were only there to play the role of peace keepers. Thus they only evacuated the foreigners, leaving Paul and his family behind, along with the rest of the refugee’s at the hotel. Paul using all his connections eventually is able to get a UN convoy for all the refugee’s as they...
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... | |Borat | |Brokeback Mountain | |City of God | |Crash | |District 9 | |Friday Night Lights (not the TV show) | |God Grew Tired of Us | |Hoop Dreams | |Hotel Rawanda | |House of Sand and Fog | |In America | |Lost in Translation | |Murderball | |Once Were Warriors | |Slumdog Millionaire | |The Kite Runner | |Thirteen | [pic] Name Date Name of Movie: hotel rwanda Hotel Rwanda is a true story about a one man’s courage in the midst of genocide of two gangs the Hutus and the Tutsi’s. This rival all began on april6, 1994 the president’s plane was shot down over the Kigali airport. Hutus politicians blamed the Tutsi’s for the president’s death; within hours loosely organized Hutu militia gangs began to kill the Tutsi’s. Over 100 days 800,000 Tutsi’s were killed for a war they didn’t even start....
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...| | Hotel Rwanda | The Effects of Trauma on Victims | In the movie Hotel Rwanda, the most memorable event was when Paul Rusesabagina found his fifteen year-old son, Roger hiding in the bushes of his neighbor’s backyard covered in blood. This very tragic day on April 6, 1994 the Rwandan Genocide began against the Hutus and Tutsis. Many Tutsi neighbors had gathered at Paul’s house. They knew Paul was a Hutu, who had many public connections and influences in the community. In the midst of getting his guests settled, he realized that Roger was missing. Roger decided to go next door to check on his best friend, Simon. He crawls through the bushes to the other side where he hears the Hutu soldiers and sees their boots and the glint of their machetes. Roger waited until he heard the soldiers walk away and heard their vehicles drive off. He then emerges from the bushes and was not prepared at all for what he was about to see. “Roger witnessed his best friend Simon, his mother and six sisters slaughtered in front of him. Simon had been hacked apart with a machete. He lay face down in the backyard in a pool of his own blood. Some of the other bodies were not yet dead and were moving around slowly.” (Rusesabagina, 2006) Paul found Roger terrified in the bushes and covered with blood from head to toe. He immediately picks up Roger, rushes him into the house and places him on the kitchen table. Paul is frantically looking for knife wounds to...
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...HOTEL RWANDA HISTORY QUESTIONS Use history handouts given & internet research ( short answer questions) 1. What is a "culture of impunity" and how does it relate to the "rule of law"? 2. Could the Rwandan genocide have been stopped? 3. Who is to blame for the Rwandan genocide of 1994? 4. Both the citizen who killed his Tutsi neighbour with a machete and the government leader who convinced his people to do the killing but did not kill anyone himself are criminals. Who commits the greater wrong? 5. What is necessary for a genocide? 6. Can genocide happen by accident? 7. Should the U.S. have taken the lead in getting the international community to intervene to stop the Rwandan genocide? 8. What is the concept of national sovereignty and what is R2P? 9. Can a country with a repressive government or which has been engulfed by political and social chaos go directly to a multi-party democracy or must they go through transitional stages which fall short of full representative democracy? 10. The genocidaires have been treated well in the prison run by the International Criminal Tribunal. They receive adequate food. They are allowed to pray. If they are ill they receive medicine. This is much more than they gave their victims and, in fact, they are living better than many innocent people in Rwanda. Should they be treated this well? 11. Are the international tribunals in Arusha, which are prosecuting only a few high-profile genocidaires, just...
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...12:00pm 10-31-11 Dr. Adam Fischer Hotel Rwanda Summary Hotel Rwanda is the true story of genocide of Tutsi people at the hands of Hutu extremist. During the genocide Paul Rusesabagina the manager of the Sabena Hotel des Mille Collines is a Hutu who provides shelter for over a 1,000 Tutsi refugees. His wife Tatiana is also a Tutsi who helps Paul provide shelter and comfort for the refugee’s. As the political situation in the country worsens, Paul and his family observe neighbors being killed in ethnic violence. Paul curries favor with people of influence, bribing them with money and alcohol, seeking to maintain sufficient influence to keep his family safe. When civil war erupts and a Rwandan Army officer threatens Paul and his neighbors, Paul barely negotiates their safety, and brings everyone to the hotel. More refugees come to the hotel from the overburdened United Nations camp, the Red Cross, and orphanages. Paul must divert the Hutu soldiers, care for the refugees, be a source of strength to his family, and maintain the appearance of a functioning high-class hotel, as the situation becomes more violent. Even with the, United Nations presence at the time of the genocide, they were not authorized to use any force to protect the Tutsi people, as they were only there to play the role of peace keepers. Thus they only evacuated the foreigners, leaving Paul and his family behind, along with the rest of the refugee’s at the hotel. Paul using all his connections eventually...
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...The Sociological Review of Hotel Rwanda Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, was living in Rwanda in the year 1994. During that year, Rwanda, a small country in Africa, went into a civil war between the Hutu and the Tutsi. The Hutu rebels went and assassinated the President of Rwanda and started the massacring the Tutsi. Paul Rusesabagina, a Hutu, was against the killing the Tutsi, since his wife and neighbors were Tutsi. Throughout the movie, Paul brought in survivors and attempted to get them into safety and try to escape the attempt of genocide that was happening in Rwanda. One of the biggest social structures that created throughout this movie was the difference between ascribed and achieved status. An ascribed status was status you were born with, and for the most part, it cannot be changed. In the movie, the ascribed status that affect the war was the ascribed status of being a Hutu or a Tutsi. And for the achieved status, it was the political power the Tutsi had in Rwanda. Most of the power in the politics in Rwanda was held by Tutsi, from the president to their congress. Through this, the Hutu was the minority of...
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...Critical Analysis of Darwins Nightmare Vs Hotel Rwanda as development education tools in Irish classroom settings. The world we live in is ever changing, with technology at everyone’s finger tips how can we keep one step ahead in our classrooms to engage our pupils in development issues that were once only found in print texts. Our pupils live in a media age, where technology is built into their lives, the days of waiting for a weekly magazine for the latest news has all but died with a click of button they have access to a wealth of information from varying sources be it bias or unbiased that is for the reader to decide. As a teacher it is becoming increasingly difficult to distract pupils from the latest celebrity gossip to highlight real world issues of race, poverty, sexuality, exploitation, etc., the pupils of today are uninterested in reading about these issues in text books so a new approach needs to be taken to open their eyes. The use of media texts in delivering development education issues to our cinematographic teenagers is the direction we need to head in. The type of media text used is a choice that has to be made by the teacher when highlighting these issues, the question remains should one use documentaries or blockbuster movies; documentaries by their nature are very factual, complex, have real life images and settings and can be difficult to watch; blockbuster movies on the other hand are produced for entertainment value, they must appeal to the cinema...
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...Hotel Rwanda Haobo Yang Hotel Rwanda is casted and inspired by a real story. This story is based on Paul Rusesabagina, who is a Hutu married to a Tutsi during the genocide that occurred in Rwanda 1994. Tutsi was being called as “cockroaches” in the radio and they were being exterminated just like cockroaches. Not only his wife was in danger, but also his children and family, as a result of that, they were looking to Rusesabagina to do something because from their perspective nothing but him can qualify this job. He is at that time the manager of a hotel where later became an impromptu refugee camp after the foreign guests have all left. The United Nation tried to help however their claimed that they are unable to provide any further helps. In the end, because of increasing threats from the military force, they decided to escape from the hotel and run to a real refugee camp. A question was hovering all over the movie: what did the United Nations, the Europeans, the Americans, or anybody else with a speck of humanity in them do? Why don’t they take actions to stop the genocide from further going? Rwanda is a lesson in how Governments and the media can selectively focus on problem areas in the world and also can selectively ignore others. For example most Americans now know differences between shiites and sunnis and kurds but how many know the differences between tsuties and hutus? That fact that the hatred portrayed in this film is so irrational combined with the look the...
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...CRITICAL ANALYSIS: HOTEL RWANDA: Sociology of Developing Countries (SOC300) Professor: Hotel Rwanda: Introduction Hotel Rwanda is a story about a country in central Africa that turned violent after their president is assassinated. Throughout all of this a man by the name of Paul Rusesabagina who was a Hutu and a hotel manager, would find himself giving refuge and saving thousand of lives at the expense of his own. Critical Analysis The event takes place in the county of Rwanda located in the central part of Africa. The events occur in the year 2004 from the month of April to June. The Main character in the movie is Paul Rusesabagina a Hutu and manager of The Hotel Mille Collines located in Kagali. The secondary characters in the movie are Tatiana Rusesabagina the wife of Paul and the General of the UN Army that was doing everything he could to assist Paul and the refuge. The origin of the conflict takes places on April 6, 1994 when it been discovered that Rwanda’s Hutu president has been assassinated when his jet was shot from the sky. Rumors would be begin to circulate that the Tutsi are responsible and immediately the Hutu army and the militia set about systematically slaughtering the minority Tutsi. This would force Paul to gather his family and neighbors into their vehicles and fled to the hotel. Over the next 100 days, Paul would put his own life on the line by protecting not only his wife and children but also other refuge that are Tutsi...
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...last week, before we watched Hotel Rwanda in social studies, but now, after seeing that movie, whenever I hear the word genocide I feel a chill down my spine. Because thinking about people getting sexually abused, beat, whipped, burned, cut, is totally different from actually seeing it. In class, we thought what we were seeing was horrible, but that wasn’t even a fraction of what actually happened it was kind of just a preview. The genocide that happened in Rwanda was depressing and horrifying. But aren’t all genocides? I know how genocides happen and how people do it, dehumanization. I still can’t even imagine it though, I can’t imagine ever being in a situation where I actually killed someone or was trying to be killed. I can’t even imagine watching someone be killed even it was an accident. So after learning about this and the holocaust, my one question is how did people have enough hope to survive? Some similarities I discovered between the genocide in Rwanda and the holocaust were they both intensely used dehumanization. For example, in Rwanda they took clothes away from the women and MADE THEM be prostitutes and or raped them before they were killed or died from the terrible living conditions. An example of dehumanization in the holocaust is when they stole away their personal beliefs and publicly displayed it, like when the Nazi’s formed a crowd and shaved the Jewish man’s beard. Some other commons things that happened in both the Rwanda...
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...Society: Through the View of Many People African-Americans, Whites, Asians, Indians, Chinese, Japanese, and etc…They are all classified as ethnicities, that are judged every day in some shape or form. From day one to now I’ve learned more through the class of “Black World Studies” taught by Professor Coates. Coates gave me the intelligent insight on how Africans-Americans were able to succeed through the tough times of learning even when they could die from learning how to read. It was a sacrifice the slaves had to do that the time. When I read more articles and watched more movies, it showed determination, courage, heart, and attitude. When reading, it switched to a period of slavery to a period of the Civil War. After that I came to an author named Jared Diamond that gave his view on the world of slavery. In the article “How Africa Became Black” by Jared Diamond he argues that diversity resulted from the geography of Africa. Africa is home to five major human groups, blacks, whites, African Pygmies, Khoisan, and Asians. Thirty percent of the world’s language is in Africa. But as the years goes on were losing about 2 per week. Soon as the world gets older there wouldn’t be any languages in Africa. As race continues to grow in Africa there will be different types of languages being made and the previous groups (ethnic groups of language) wouldn’t exist anymore. As said in paragraph 8 of “How Africa Became Black” races are stereotyping, from Black to White, to putting the Zulu...
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...Bonita Robinson October 24, 2013 English 102 11:00 – 11:50 Professor: Adam Fisher Hotel Rwanda Movie Review “Hotel Rwanda” is a harsh drama based on a true story that addresses the genocide in Rwanda in the early mid to nineties. Generations of European conquest by the Belgians, resulted in the establishment of two social classes: the Hutu and Tutsi. For the majority of the movie, the minority Tutsi ruled and oppressed the Hutu, but as the level of power reversed, the Hutu, who were in the majority, became determined in their objective for eradicating the Tutsi people. The movie “Hotel Rwanda” is an adaptation of the story of Paul Rusesabagina (played by Don Cheadle), who is a mild mannered, well respected, and business savvy, Hutu hotel manager whose livelihood is sacrificed for a greater cause amidst widespread savagery and barbarism. Although his social status provides him with relatively safety, his Tutsi wife, family and neighbors must face life-threatening conditions. Paul’s elite Hotel des Milles Collines, becomes a safe-haven for his family, neighbors and hundreds of other Tutsis. Their lives are in constant danger, but critical thinking by Cheadle’s character keeps his family from becoming victims. Paul becomes responsible for several hundred lives as he welcomes others in the hotel, and relies on the prospect of international intervention. As the film progresses, Paul understands that the UN will no longer provide assistance, forcing him to become self-reliant...
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...Hotel Rwanda “No rescue, no intervention, no help from others. We can only save ourselves.” You will never imagine that racialism can bring a war that you cannot predict unless you have the experienced before. You cannot expect that how terrible a war that affect to all of us. We can make the world peace by respect to each other. This is a film that let you know how a war can happen and effect to all of us because of racialism. ‘Hotel Rwanda’ is a historical drama film directed by Terry George. ‘Hotel Rwanda’ was released in United States on December 22, 2004 and in wide published on February 4, 2005. The rating for this film was about 4 stars. ‘Hotel Rwanda’ explores genocide, political corruption, and the repercussions of violence. ‘Hotel Rwanda’ is about the tensions between the Hutu and Tutsi peoples lead to a war in Rwanda, where the corruption between politicians are routine, Paul Rusesabagina (Cheadle), the manager of the Sabena owned Hotel des Mille Collines, is Hutu. He married with Tatiana (Okonedo), which is Tutsi and their children are considered as mixed. In the political situation in the country worsens, as a Hutu, he is safe, only his wife and children are threatened. He is the kind of man who knows how things work in the real world, who uses his skills of bribery, flattery, apology and deception to save these lives who have come into his care. The United Nations Peacekeeping force, led by Colonel Oliver (Nick...
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