Hotel Rwanda

**smashup** · 07-18-2005 02:04 PM

Saw this last night
Tragic story
Gangsters in Army uniforms..
The Malicia "Butchered" SO many people,Kids etc
Should have made it an 18 and not a 12 (Not enough Gore to really shock)
Well worth a watch.
7/10

**Chico** · 07-19-2005 03:36 AM

my girlfriend is into the whole africa thing so i have to watch hotel rwanda and sometimes in april all the time. if i remember correctly 20,000 people died in a month. thats alot of people to chop up,my arm wouldve been quite tired.

**smashup** · 07-19-2005 12:02 PM

Brutal stuff
They use some real footage of Malicia men chopping people to death on the streets..
Sick.

**CGM** · 12-19-2008 06:31 AM

Heavy movie. There are some heavy duty documentaries on Youtube also.

Interestingly enough only today ( Dec 18 ) they actually convicted a Rwandan army general for masterminding the entire massacre, which was somewhere between 500,000 to 800,000 people killed back in 1994.

Rwandan massacre mastermind convicted of genocide - Yahoo! News

**porkypara** · 12-19-2008 08:32 AM

The unit I was in while in the British army(9 Para Sqn RE) were out there just before I joined.

The boys out there said it was mad,a few got taken hostage and one of our boys got his foot taken off by a land mine.

Also they had ther hans tied by the government who would not let them intervien in the killings.

France has a lot of blood on its hands after what happened in Rwanda as they were backing the killers.

**CGM** · 12-19-2008 09:21 AM

The leader of the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda during this time was a Canadian. He really suffered terribly from his experience there. He really raised a stink with UN headquarters, he said a massacre was going to happen, but he got precious little support. He said himself "we could have saved hundreds of thousands..." but it just didn't happen

. Now he has big psychological problems, nightmares, depression etc.

He wrote a book about his experiences during this time. "Shake Hands With the Devil" by Romeo Dallaire.

**porkypara** · 12-19-2008 09:43 AM

Originally Posted by CGM

The leader of the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda during this time was a Canadian. He really suffered terribly from his experience there. He really raised a stink with UN headquarters, he said a massacre was going to happen, but he got precious little support. He said himself "we could have saved hundreds of thousands..." but it just didn't happen

. Now he has big psychological problems, nightmares, depression etc.

He wrote a book about his experiences during this time. "Shake Hands With the Devil" by Romeo Dallaire.

Good book.

**sonny78** · 12-19-2008 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by Chico

my girlfriend is into the whole africa thing so i have to watch hotel rwanda and sometimes in april all the time. if i remember correctly 20,000 people died in a month. thats alot of people to chop up,my arm wouldve been quite tired.

Not even close mate in roughly 100 days, at least 500,000 people were killed. Most estimates indicate a death toll between 800,000 and 1,000,000

That's over 200,000 in a month most hacked to death with blunt machetes

and no one did anything, this was in 1994 I remember seeing this film and thinking at least this has been exposed and could never happen again, that's just wishful thinking

Sudan: Started in 2003 the United Nations estimates that the conflict has left as many as 500,000 dead

Congo: Bit more complicated this one but the war in Congo is the world's deadliest conflict since World War II, killing 5.4 million people started in 1998

The whole place is fucked