Made ten years after the genocide in Rwanda, Hotel Rwanda is an excellent retelling of a true story involving a very brave hotel manager and his family, who give shelter to over 1200 refugees. It is a remarkable story.
Rwanda was a former colony of Belgium, and the Belgians had divided the local populace into two communities, the Hutus and the Tutsis, according to certain visible genetic traits, like the size of the nose and height. The Tutsis were the minority, and reared to be the privileged ones. THutus fought back with a vengeance culminating in the genocide which left almost a million Tutsis dead in Rwanda.
The International community did nothing unfortunately. The United Nations did not send enough peace keepers, the whites were evacuated on priority - almost every single thing that you can think of which screams discrimination and apathy took place. It's almost shocking just how blatant every thing was. I'm glad that 300 peace keepers did stay - but considering the might of the United Nations, and the developed nations, that is nothing.
A must see movie.
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