Hatred in men

Hatred in men

I remember watching the movie Hotel Rwanda and was wondering how could a screen writer come up with such terrible imagery, I remember my heart was breaking for all of those people that were being slaughtered and both my husband and I were at home discussing what we just saw not knowing that this movie was based on actual events that occurred. The reason these events that took place in Africa was not known by everyone is simply because these events did not get much press here in the America, so a lot of people were not aware of the terrible deeds that were occurring over there, also the press themselves were too scared to go and cover these events, because these wars were not military style wars there were no rules at all this type of war was called guerrilla warfare it’s a anything goes type of war, you could not make out the combatants because some were young children not yet reached puberty carrying these killings. This war was triggered by the death of the president of Rwanda who was from the Hutu tribe, which the Tutsi blamed the rocket that shot the plane of the president was done by members of the Hutu tribe to provoke the civil war. During these one hundred days of war in 1994, the death toll was approximated to be between five hundred thousand to one million dead, this is about twenty percent of the total population. No one was spared on either side, women were raped and passed around once they were done with the woman they were then killed, children were killed because they did not want them grow up, even little babies were ripped from their mothers arms and murdered without any hesitation in cold blood, bodies were piled everywhere in the streets the ravines, members of the Hutu tribe place the dead bodies of the slain Tutsi into the ravine to float them back to Nigeria, because they were often compared to the Nigerian due to their physical structure, the Tutsi people were tall and slender and muscular, while the Hutu people were the opposite they resented the Tutsi for something they were not able to control and that’s your physical characteristics. This war in Rwanda reminded me of the civil war in America between the North and the South, where brothers were pinned against brothers because of their different point of views.