Romeo Dallaire has fought suicide for years. Since he retired from the Canadian Army he dedicated his life to combating the use child soldiers. He's a great man who fought as hard as he could to save as many Rwandans as possible. Nick Nolte did a great job.
Thumbs up from me but i would like to add Dellaire came out and said that the film is totally wrong and should be avoided by anyone who wants to understand the true story.
I read his book: "Shake Hands with the Devil", truly a harrowing story. That sadly confirmed how differently we value human lives. The 1990's were not particular kind to the UN nor the international society.
IronKnight117 how so? The west isn't responsible for policing countries that can't police themselves and nobody claims to be the PC godsends except the same liberals that do nothing but talk and never act or wanna give anything up themselves. They always just wanna take. Rwandans were probably much less pussy then western liberals
The problem is that no matter what the west did, this would’ve resulted in war, bloodshed, and complete destabilization either way. Genocide is never going to have a peaceful solution.
Dan Zalisnock Europeans left Africa without a real plan and years of racial divide. Once the problem wasn’t in their hands they pretty said “Fuck this were not doing anything”
0:50 - Paul knew exactly what was happening. The whole "congratulations" thing at the bar with Dallaire was just an act to get the story out of him. Brilliant acting.
Shame on the Belgian government for their desertion and cowardice. During WW2 Canadian soldiers(including Dallaire's father) liberated Belgium. 50 years later, they deserted Dallaire and the genocide that they caused.
Aha, yeah fair enough I can't speak on behalf of him. Its possible he's relating France's decolonialism to that of Belgium's? France also "abandoned" a lot of its colonies to fend for themselves, often resulting in dictatorship or poverty.
They've figured it out with good leadership. It's all they needed, direction. A lot of ground to cover though. Deprived of meaningful education and then suddenly being abandoned was a recipe for disaster. But they've figured it out for themselves. Im hoping the same for South Africa. Maybe after all the scores they settle, after all the hatred they subject each other to, maybe they'll see the bigger picture and move forward from there.
The horror of genocide may have paused but make no mistake in the case of Rwanda and the area of the Congo. Nothing good came from the deaths of over 5 million people over the course of many rebellions that still stand on the cusp of continuing to this day. The hutu and tutsi in this case will continue their hate and allow it to consume them. No lesson has been learned and these people died for nothing. Its leaders on both sides are still quite content on continuing the lie that their two sides are not one in the same.
@@SimuLord In a medieval society you would be correct but nowadays there is much more to it, for example investment. Singapore, Hong Kong and Liechtenstein are hubs for business and innovation.
In the end, it wasn't the useless French troops (who were only there to save whites), or Clinton, or the Belgians, or the good for nothing UN bureaucrats who stopped the genocide. It was the RPF under Paul Kagame that stopped the genocide. If those French troops had been ordered to stop the Hutu militias, or if the UN soldiers were actually allowed to protect people, then hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved. If just one Western power had paid enough attention or given a shit, it all could have been avoided. The Hutu militants were armed with machetes, good for massacring defenceless civilians, but useless against professional troops armed with guns.
@@johncanavisw he ended up leaving the Canadian armed forces, he was medically discharged in 2000 after public admission to the PTSD he had from what was seen in Rwanda, he’s probably one of the few higher ups who reach out like that. He became a well respected figure in Canadian politics and to this day has devoted himself to stopping the use of child soldiers in war
General Dallaire - a man given an impossible task. And proof that it isn’t just the grunts that get PTSD, but generals do as well. He has fought the demons this preventable genocide created and still does what he can to end the use of child soldiers and provided testimony in the trials of the genocidaires. May God bless him and have mercy on those that enabled what happened in Rwanda.
@@harshvardhansingh702 There really wasn't anything the Colonel could do due to the Leadership of the UN. Everyone of them were cowards and the ROE the Colonel and his Peacekeeper Forces that were enforced upon them put both of their hands tied. There was a talk about Executive Outcomes going in and dealing with those committing Genocide and they would go in on behalf of the UN but the UN didn't want them involve.
Yeah then instead of a Civil War and genocide by his own people America would have invaded, bombed country into the stone age and committed a genocide of their own all while calling it "democracy."
Its cool i can understand that the Colonel isnt being racist. It isnt his option to stay or go, but he is arming the other man with the information and confidence to take the hotel over and ultimately achieve some semblance of organized peace. Most people wouldnt get past the words being said.
This brings tears to me eyes to see how they so easily threw aside the Rwandan people, and were only concerned with the Belgian citizens and foreigners living in the country at the time..
I agree in spirit, but you can't blame a government for looking out for their people. Ten belgian peacekeepers were already tortured and executed. I look at this comment section and everyone is blaming the belgians (mostly based on what this movie told them), and I think it's more complicated than that.
Yes, it’s more complicated and the movie does not tell them that the French govt bears heavy responsibility. Its troops were relentless in their persecutions there. In their everyday life, civilians suffered physical and sexual assault from _FRENCH SOLDIERS_ and these acts often targeted the Tutsi population because of its ethnicity. “A young Tutsi boy was ordered out of a vehicle _BY THE FRENCH._ A French soldier caught him by the arm and gave him a kick in the low belly. This blow caused him health problems that he never recovered from. He urinated blood and pus and later died. Another young person was struck on the head _BY A FRENCH SOLDIER_ with the butt of a rifle. Since then, the victim has suffered from permanent mental disorder. He has been sick for the rest of his life. As for me, _A FRENCH SOLDIER_ gave me three bayonet blows on the thigh. Here are the scars. ". “Hutu militiamen brought a Tutsi civilian they had caught in Gishwati. _THE FRENCH_ asked what happened and got the explanation that the militiamen had caught a Tutsi suspect. They filmed the scene. Suddenly, somebody took a club and struck the person on the head. Another poured gasoline on the victim and set him on fire. He burnt to death in front of everyone. _THE FRENCH_ filmed the whole scene and went away. There were also Rwandan police officers present. It was the Mayor of Kanama, named Marius, who came later to make arrangements for his burial ". On the night of 6th February 1993, a young Tutsi girl named Jeanne Mukarusine, aged 20 years at the time, was sexually assaulted very violently by _FRENCH SOLDIERS_ of Operation Noroit who were guarding Kanombe airport. They caught her leaving a nightclub, ”Kigali Night” which belonged to the son of President Habyarimana. They then forced her into their car and began striking her and tearing her clothes off using bayonets. They violently inserted their fingers and a knife into her body. A few days later, Jeanne died of her wounds. Often, the French military hierarchy was informed and consistently acted to protect the soldiers involved.
@@nxshuu That’s where the problem is. The country called France had allied itself with the genocidaires. That’s who it was there to protect. And that’s absolutely reprehensible. The French regime could not at once protect both its genocidaire allies, and the genocidaires’ target which was the Tutsi population. On the contrary, the Paris regime contributed to the extermination of that population. “There was no aspect of Rwandan life in which France did not intervene-from supplying weapons to training elite soldiers and youth militias to providing intelligence to providing financial support to devising military strategy to acting as international spin doctors to leading the Rwandan armed forces to manning roadblocks and asking for the notorious ID cards that revealed citizens’ ethnic origin. Almost no authority believes that the Rwandan army could have held off the rebels for three years without French support, and if the Habyarimana gang had been overthrown, *T H E R E W O U L D H A V E B E E N N O G E N O C I D E.* French politicians, French diplomats, and French soldiers blatantly lied about everything that was happening in Rwanda. George Orwell never had more faithful disciples in turning the truth completely on its head.” [G. Caplan, 2008]
Rwanda was a class example of the effects of sudden and disorganized decolonization and the West's unwillingness to deal with world problems after the Cold War. When the Europeans left many of these African nations didn't stand a chance. There was no plan in place to ensure a peaceful transition of government, barely any infrastructure to run the nations because they were tailored to economic exploitation of resources, and a severe shortage of college educated and skilled workers. These three factors doomed many of these countries to a never ending cycle of civil war, anarchism, and third world status. This combined with the West unwilling to deal with these problems as the US did not want to deal with it and tried to pressure Europe to deal with it who were equally unwilling was the perfect storm for the genocide to happen
Another issue that no one including you will talk about and this exist more of an issue in the Middle East is UK as an example drawing geo political lines across tribal zones and religious sectors within nations so it was impossible for tribal people to get along with each other hence most civil wars in Africa were not even about politics, they were literally trying to kill other people for not sharing the same blood as them.
In his book "Scapegoats", retired General Michael Scott (former British Army officer) portrays well what Dallaire was up against in Rwanda, from the Tutsi-Hutu fighting to the UN's intervention and the impossible scenario that he was pressed into trying to navigate. The Rwandan genocide, particularly from Romeo's point of view, should be required reading (viewing) for anyone in the upper echelons of UN/Western National command thinking of providing aid in such situations.
What?! Merde they screwed up General Delaire he'd never behave like that, US Hollywood shoot em up stuff. Watch his public speaking, his Documentary, his film Shake Hands With The Devil. You will see the real deal.
@@CaptainOvious123for real. When you look at which European countries colonised Africa, the ones colonised by Belgium are by far the worst off today with former French colonies not far behind
+JORBEL PRIME The US had literally only just left Somalia at this time. The American public was simply not interested in sending it's troops on another misadventure. Tragic and awful yes, but not without good reason. If anyone's to blame, it's the UN.
Not to mention it was Europe's mess to begin with as they caused it all and they acted like a kid hiding all their toys and crap in the closet to avoid actually cleaning
I’m kinda confused. Is the West supposed to intervene and keep a presence everywhere they believe they should? Cause when it does, it’s being called imperialism. Be it the French in Sahel fighting off Islamists, American presence in the Korean DMZ or NATO patrols in the Baltic. A solution would probably be properly arming the UN peacekeepers and using them as a military force, but that would be very controversial and all it takes is one accident and it becoms evil imperialism once again...
@@martinmendl1399 the promblem was that they were already there and didn’t do anything, also yes military force should be used when laws against nature are violated (genocide).
For those of you complaining about the lack of action taken by the west at the time, keep in mind what can happen when the west does take action in a similar situation, ie Iraq in 2003, when Hussein was holding a minority rule in the country, killing off political dissidents, while committing genocide on the Kurds. Either way, it’s going to lead to some form of bloodshed and destabilization of the country in question. I’m sure many of you making those comments were not fond of the Iraq war. Reacting to Genocide will never have a peaceful and clean solution, regardless of what action (or lack thereof) is taken.
You have a point, of course, but inaction is not better by default than action. Besides, it does seem a little bit unfair that the United Nations, which is supposed to be a world-wide organization, would refuse to bring order to a nation when clearly needed and requested. Many people would not be happy if they did, but not doing it resulted in the deaths of so many. Some discontent is preferable to a genocide.
First of all two drastically different situations the west had already a presence in the country during the genocide some countries gave the killers the supplies necessary to commit this act
@@squiddytentacles2.5 They have been doing exactly that in both Zimbabwe and South Africa ever since Mugabe and Mandela's terrorist organizations took power.
I wish all governments in Africa to tell all televisions within countries to show this move 3 times a week then our people can learn how to trust themselves not other continents we are black Africans......
I'm gonna be THAT guy! Why exactly should the West have intervened? Rwandans killing Rwandans....why should the West loose our sons to fight/fix THEIR war? After all, how many troops did Rwanda send to overthrow Hitler? How many Venezuelans marched into Russia to rescue all those starving farmers under Stalin? Did Somalia send it's "Navy" to oppose Japan after Pearl Harbor? And let's be CLEAR! It's not a race thing, except in the sense that each continent tends to have a single race living on it. If you want to ascribe race to the motivations, which "Blacks" are we refusing to save? Tribe A slaughtering Tribe B today (Tribe B who slaughtered Tribe A a generation ago BTW) or maybe stop the likely slaughter of Tribe A as reprisals for murders by Tribe B? Should the UN have marched into South Africa after Apartheid ended and tribes began CUTTING THE ARMS OFF members of other tribes so they couldn't vote?
It comes down to the UN genocide convention, signed and ratified by the world, that genocide is to be prevented, stopped, and punished. Of course, all laws and treaties are at the end of the day words on paper, and we just sat and watched. For just humanitary reasons, preventing crimes against humanity, that's a fuzzy situation. We got involved in Somalia after famine killed 300,00 civilians, with mixed results.
@@usul573 Agreed generally, but looking back over history I am starting to take a "Prime Directive" view. Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War 1+2, Afghanistan, Somalia all started as UN operations or had UN approval, but all ended being "American" wars. The US dragged Japan into the modern world and decades later paid the price, along with uncounted Chinese. We backed the Russians against Germany in WWII, but the USSR ended up killing more people in the long run. We got rid of Saddam, but that allowed the rise of ISIS. We got rid of Khadafi, but now there are SLAVE MARKETS there! So which genocides should we stop? All? If so where are the UN Troops protecting White South African farmers? The Muslims in China? And what happens when, as is often the case in Africa, you save Tribe A only to have them become the murders a few years later? This only has two possible outcomes, massive depopulation as the balance of power shifts over and over and we turn our military on each in turn, or permanent "Peace Keeping" forces which, IMO, would start to look like Colonialism pretty quick.
I just watched this movie last night and this scene absolutely pissed me off because of how they just desert them, even for such a small nation like Rwanda.
I saw this in class when I was in 10th grade and what that man said seriously made my heart drop. Because my parnets are Nigerian immigrants but I'm was born in America. But I do consider myself African at times because that the culture my parnets gave me growing up. So when this man basically said that being Africian is worst than being black it really hit me hard and it was honestly the one of the hardest part of the movie for me to hear. I think it's a good thing that they said that in this movie so that people can get a better understanding of how Black people and Afrcians are seen
I was watching this in summer school, wanted to get ahead in my classes but ended up being roped into a class of flunked 10th graders. Nobody else really payed attention to the film, even when they got to this scene. I wished they had at least acknowledge it with a giggle.
Another Username 666 oh my god that’s so immature. We watched this & we’re freshmen and nobody laughed or giggled in my class. it was a serious scene with a heavy meaning and we knew.
Flawess Grace dude you shouldn't be considering yourself African cause you are African and you will always be African no matter where you're born. Black people in America are considered African first before American. #AfricanAmerican. You will always hear top people address you as African American and not American
@@golden4730 nope. If you want to be African, be born in Africa. Otherwise you are just a black person living in another country. The white people born in Africa are not European, they are African. Same goes for black people abroad.
Ukraine is actually important to Europe, their security, their society, their economy. Rwanda is irrelevant in comparison. The idea that the West should've invaded Rwanda is laughable.
Exaggerated footage. Ukraine at the time was not looking for political correctness. They’re not going to split Ukrainian families to cater to people who are there briefly. They all waited for the next train & left safely.
Despite this being a dramatization of the events. The basis of this story is the reason why the U.N. Peacekeepers need more leeway when engaging armed combatants. They're relegated to a posturing force, sometimes they're disallowed by the UNSC's (United Nations Security Council) Rules of Engagement from shooting back even when shot at. This isn't the only time during the multitude of Peacekeeping missions in Africa that are designed to protect civilians, refugees, and hospitals where the Peacekeepers could do nothing. Either the U.N. needs to expand the scope of the ROE for Peacekeepers or they need to discontinue the program in favor of something more effective.
Was a good film but may i add that Dollaire stated (and his fellow colleagues) they hated the film and if anyone wanted to learn of the terrible event of Rwanda then they should stay well clear off this film. Still a good film tho but i have to concur with the people who were there.
Well Paul used the hotel to extort profit from the refugees and turned them over to the militia if they were unable to keep paying for their stay. I’d say it’s just a tad bit off. The film paints him as a saint while he was actually an abhorrent piece of shit, but it’s just a minor difference
Kind of damned if you do, damned if you don't, for the European powers. It would look really bad if former colonial powers went all in on a fight in a African country.
It's crazy how we in the west see race as mere skin color. In Rwanda, the Hutu's massacred the Tutsi's because they were a different race. Crazy how "race" and "racism" mean different things to different cultures. We in the west think that everyone uses our definitions because of our pride.
Credit where it's due to the colonel. He didn't try to justify or lie about what was going on. He gave it to him straight and felt guilty that his superiors and the west are willing to turn a blind eye to such injustice. "You should spit in my face" he wouldn't blame him for feeling resentful but feels worse that he won't, at least it would have been easier.
I really don't understand what he means by saying he is black but not an N word, I really don't get it. I understand that the N word is an insult specifically for black people but...I don't get his logic (not trying to offend)
Soldier job were to follow orders. You didn't do something beyond orders unless needed. In this case he would lost his finest UN troops. The rebels were heavily armed.
@@islamicschoolofmemestudies and yet they send UN peacekeepers? why not send in an armed force to get them all out? logistics aside, it should've been option #1 instead of this dick move
2:08-2:16 One of the most underrated lines in cinema history. Look at the bomb blast in Somalia three days ago for example. Most people don't even know it happened.
I agree completely. Those lines stuck with me more than anything else when I watched Hotel Rwanda. These days in "the West," we hear a lot of things in the media about racial justice, but events in sub-Saharan Africa don't seem to capture our attention in the same way. "You're not even a [N-word], you're an African" captures this attitude perfectly; if we're going to claim that Black lives matter, shouldn't all Black lives matter, and not just people of African descent living in Western countries? Just because someone lives half a world away shouldn't make them any less human than someone who lives in the same country as I do.
Not just Black Americans, but The Whole African Diaspora, Bantus in Africa, and *certain" West African Tribes. In other words, he was saying there's a difference between Africans(Hamites) and Israelites.
The most Hypocritical thing I remember was the French finally intervening by occupying the south Rwanda to stop RPF from driving out the last hutu troops .....
They did help guard some people, helped with communications and supplies, but yes their mission was considered a failure. 270 UN peacekeeping troops can't stop a 100,000 strong militia from committing genocide during a civil war. They were under strict orders to not fire unless fired upon where they were posted to guard or help. If they escalated the militia might have killed all of them.
The REAL issue with this conflict is (very shortened) the Hutu wanted to ERADICATE the Tutsi, then the Tutsi started winning and taking revenge and THEN the West interfered to stop the Tutsi cuz the Hutu offered them a better deal on the ressources. Im a german, and compared to the history of my country, (fiction) its like the West would have interfered in the Prussian-Franco war against Prussia even though France started the war, just cuz Prussia wasnt as eager to grant the West more influence in its politics. Thus preventing the unification of germany. If the West just let the Tutsi take revenge and consult their power, of cource there would have been more killing, but also the rise of a stronger, more autonomous nation state, and thus the fundament for future development.
Well, the Hutu make up 87% of the population. They genocided the Tutsi but the Tutsi Rebels the Patriotic Front, won the war and pushed the Rwanda Hutu Army out. Now to stop another genocide by the Tutsi rebels the west got involved. Remember, the Tutsi rebels could have killed millions of Hutus. Regarding resources? Rwanda doesn't have any. Its a small over populated nation. It has the lowest mineral production in Africa. I know some Africans like to point and blame the West, but this was an African problem.
2 Kings 18:21 - Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
worse the west sponsored the genocide , the french sold machetes and weapons to the hutu , ... the whole shit heated up bcuz of colnisation so yeah the west deserve the blame
Everyone else is bad because they sat back and watched. They love screaming never again but time and time again they just sit back and allow it to happen over anf over again
Its not the west role to intervene whenever theres a tribal war in africa. Respecting african soverignity and ability to solve their own issues is not rascism.
Then the west should stop funding insurgents and stop illegaly fishing and mining in Africa. Oh wait that’s gonna cost them money where do you think all those minerals for those components in your phone comes from. That’s right Africa west is exploiting the continent and pretending it’s not their fault if it’s unstable
Then the West (Belgium) should not have segregated Rwanda in the first place. It was the Belgians that said that Hutu were European looking and the Tutsi were savages. It was the French who willingly sold the Hutu weapons in order to commit the violence. The West was already in the country; they just chose to watch their international policies do what it did best. If Western nations don't want to be blamed for their policies and actions fucking things up, stop fucking things up!
So many things are wrong with this scene just like the rest of the movie! The soldiers at 0:43 are holding rifles. In other words they aren’t officers but simple riflemen. Yet they are engaged in deep and decisive discussions with Dallaire, a General? How is that even thinkable?
There is no discussion. He is the ranking UN officer talking to a Belgian soldier. The Belgian soldier informs him that the Belgians are taking the foreigners and leaving. Those two things would be known by any Belgian soldier there and they would be allowed to say that to a UN colonel.
For all of you who think the UN or whoever should have invaded the country or something. How do you expect for the Tutsi army to then have taken over the country if that happened? The west or whoever clearly knew the outcome of the WAR would be the much more funded tutsi army would eventually win and reimpose tutsi minority rule over the hutu. That was the expected and wanted outcome. And is the outcome that occurred. "the powers that be" didn't want a hutu nation.
It's politics! No one likes it! No one want's to talk about it! What happened in Rwanda is simply bad government. Same things are happening in the west. You had minorities who were discriminated against. The majority banded with them to make the inequality of opportunity finally illegal. But that wasn't good enough. The government demanded the power to use race and sex to favor the minorities. After we took away their power to favor the majorities. Now there is quota diversity in universities and at jobs. We are complicit or even justify our neighbor being demonized and his rights being stolen by the government cause it's a right we don't care to exercise. As it always goes, the pendulum will, one day, swing back. The level division and injustice faced between now and then will determine the fate of the minority at the hands of extremists in the majority. The removal of rights will leave them entirely unable to defend themselves when that judgement comes. Just think? In the USA with the "mostly peaceful protests", according to left wing media and Democrats, that took place over the last year. How many lost their business, their investment and their future? Of all the riots in all the cities, with left wing base, left wing government preventing policing and justice for the people responsible. How many were destroyed? How many would kill for the injustice if given the opportunity? The exact same Ideology that discriminated against and terrorized the minority is now favoring the minority and allowing, instigating and excusing all injustice by them to try and once again stir up the hate in the majority that allowed them to enslave and discriminate in the first place. Don't say it can't happen cause all those responsible spread the blame and were never held responsible nor was their ideological political party. Pay close attention to what happened in Rwanda. Pay far closer attention to why and how. It was simply politics and after a time of discrimination and protection The tables turned and the majority with many full of hate and under extremists carried out this atrocity. The person that commented below me said people will call this horrible then go back to eating? Well, we are watching the setup to it happening again right now by still supporting race favoritism and sex favoritism under the name of diversity and we don't even recognize it because people recognize the what but engage the blinders when they hear the why because they know they are allowing it and maybe even pushing the why right in front of their eyes in real time. If it's not stopped the horrifying what will happen again and it's only a matter of time. But, this time the river road covered in bodies may be the river by where you live. We need to band together and again Remove all government and institutional right and ability to discriminate based on race and sex once again and I pray we do it soon.
“If people see this footage, they’ll say ‘Oh My God that’s horrible’, and then go on eating their dinners.”
The worst part in this statement: It`s the truth of it.
I've heard that before. I just don't remember where was it from a video that your teacher made possibly showed you
@@avalanchefalls3524 I think it was blood diamond movie..
Come on man, they have more important shit to worry about, like "gender pronouns" and the "evils" of Donald Trump. Ya know, real stuff.
We all have our own lives to live
Romeo Dallaire has fought suicide for years. Since he retired from the Canadian Army he dedicated his life to combating the use child soldiers. He's a great man who fought as hard as he could to save as many Rwandans as possible. Nick Nolte did a great job.
Thumbs up from me but i would like to add Dellaire came out and said that the film is totally wrong and should be avoided by anyone who wants to understand the true story.
@Reezy37 I've had that book for 15 years but I still can't read it fully.
Gsr Badell fuck off he was a hero
I read his book: "Shake Hands with the Devil", truly a harrowing story. That sadly confirmed how differently we value human lives. The 1990's were not particular kind to the UN nor the international society.
@@luciusquinctiuscincinnatus6627 You're 100% correct. I've gone and seen him speak publicly a couple of times, he's gone into detail in comparison.
This scene is why this movie didn’t win any oscars it was a critique in the hypocrisy of the west and the UN
IronKnight117 how so? The west isn't responsible for policing countries that can't police themselves and nobody claims to be the PC godsends except the same liberals that do nothing but talk and never act or wanna give anything up themselves. They always just wanna take. Rwandans were probably much less pussy then western liberals
The problem is that no matter what the west did, this would’ve resulted in war, bloodshed, and complete destabilization either way. Genocide is never going to have a peaceful solution.
Dan Zalisnock Europeans left Africa without a real plan and years of racial divide. Once the problem wasn’t in their hands they pretty said “Fuck this were not doing anything”
DJ Vault Boy Finally, someone who knows history!
DJ Vault Boy In reality they did plenty. Even their own state TV no longer denies it. ua-cam.com/video/aB1qywsmaLs/v-deo.html
The world abandoned Rwanda when Rwanda needed the world the most.
Watch BBC docu "Rwanda's untold story" looks like we werent told the whole truth about Rwanda's genocide.
Like what Paul said "these are difficult times we must help one another"
If only Chris Kyle was there to help.
Nabiha Moses the worl, english canadian french and belgium s people
Nabiha Moses
Because we weren't allowed to....
0:50 - Paul knew exactly what was happening. The whole "congratulations" thing at the bar with Dallaire was just an act to get the story out of him. Brilliant acting.
got real at that point
1:57 - the general knew all along and saw through Paul's false naivete. This is terrific acting by both Cheadle & Nolte.
No shit 😂
How long did it take you to figure that out sherlock
Shame on the Belgian government for their desertion and cowardice.
During WW2 Canadian soldiers(including Dallaire's father) liberated Belgium. 50 years later, they deserted Dallaire and the genocide that they caused.
Ryan M Belgium == France. No more words needed other than I'm Glad Canadians are on my border.
Hiro Shào in the context of colonialism, they are in fact the one and the same
I think he just means in how they behaved in the rise and fall of Colonialism. Small differences, but overall largely similar.
Aha, yeah fair enough I can't speak on behalf of him. Its possible he's relating France's decolonialism to that of Belgium's? France also "abandoned" a lot of its colonies to fend for themselves, often resulting in dictatorship or poverty.
tutsi and hutu kill each other,belgian fault
It honestly makes me glad to see the Colonel so angry. He’s a good man
Congrats to Rwanda for how they've rebuilt themselves after this. Keep going.
They've figured it out with good leadership. It's all they needed, direction.
A lot of ground to cover though. Deprived of meaningful education and then suddenly being abandoned was a recipe for disaster. But they've figured it out for themselves. Im hoping the same for South Africa.
Maybe after all the scores they settle, after all the hatred they subject each other to, maybe they'll see the bigger picture and move forward from there.
The horror of genocide may have paused but make no mistake in the case of Rwanda and the area of the Congo. Nothing good came from the deaths of over 5 million people over the course of many rebellions that still stand on the cusp of continuing to this day. The hutu and tutsi in this case will continue their hate and allow it to consume them. No lesson has been learned and these people died for nothing. Its leaders on both sides are still quite content on continuing the lie that their two sides are not one in the same.
@@SimuLord In a medieval society you would be correct but nowadays there is much more to it, for example investment. Singapore, Hong Kong and Liechtenstein are hubs for business and innovation.
In the end, it wasn't the useless French troops (who were only there to save whites), or Clinton, or the Belgians, or the good for nothing UN bureaucrats who stopped the genocide. It was the RPF under Paul Kagame that stopped the genocide. If those French troops had been ordered to stop the Hutu militias, or if the UN soldiers were actually allowed to protect people, then hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved. If just one Western power had paid enough attention or given a shit, it all could have been avoided. The Hutu militants were armed with machetes, good for massacring defenceless civilians, but useless against professional troops armed with guns.
What planet are you living on? You must be joking.
Roméo Dallaire. My man you tried.
A great man.
A true living legend!
Indeed. The movie depicted him as kindof cold but I feel so bad for him. What could he do?
Watch shake hands for the devil! Way more accurate
@@stoptrudeau42 I can't find that movie anywhere anymore...
In real life this Canadian General Dellaire was ordered by UN to leave rwanda but he answered back at them. "to hell with you"
@@johncanavisw He ended up with only Ghanaians for support.
@@johncanavisw he ended up leaving the Canadian armed forces, he was medically discharged in 2000 after public admission to the PTSD he had from what was seen in Rwanda, he’s probably one of the few higher ups who reach out like that.
He became a well respected figure in Canadian politics and to this day has devoted himself to stopping the use of child soldiers in war
General Dallaire - a man given an impossible task. And proof that it isn’t just the grunts that get PTSD, but generals do as well. He has fought the demons this preventable genocide created and still does what he can to end the use of child soldiers and provided testimony in the trials of the genocidaires. May God bless him and have mercy on those that enabled what happened in Rwanda.
The UN should be banned and abolished for ever, they have their hands dirties of blood, cause to Lebanon, Bosnia, Rwanda ecc.
Sadly, this seems to fit the response the world had to Rwanda
Not to mention the DRC--an atrocity that has some roots in what happened in Rwanda.
Also Known As A Congolese guy here you are both absolutely wrong. Go get your fact straight please!
It's literally a movie about the response the world had to Rwanda, so that makes sense.
Well if they did than people would have criticized them for invading an African country hence they stepped back
Ryan that comment shows how uneducated you are, just look up why Hutus are mad at the Tutsis
one of the saddest parts of the movie
Hey i have a question. Can you please tell me
what were the opinions of Colonel Oliver on the UN?
@@harshvardhansingh702 There really wasn't anything the Colonel could do due to the Leadership of the UN. Everyone of them were cowards and the ROE the Colonel and his Peacekeeper Forces that were enforced upon them put both of their hands tied.
There was a talk about Executive Outcomes going in and dealing with those committing Genocide and they would go in on behalf of the UN but the UN didn't want them involve.
Things would have turned out quite differently for Rwanda if Paul had struck oil in his hotel courtyard.
Yeah, it would have been worse.
USA would definitely become the Hero and come for the rescue
The US has enough oil and gas on its own.
Yeah then instead of a Civil War and genocide by his own people America would have invaded, bombed country into the stone age and committed a genocide of their own all while calling it "democracy."
Sadly, he needed to hear this. He was so delusional up until this point.
Its cool i can understand that the Colonel isnt being racist. It isnt his option to stay or go, but he is arming the other man with the information and confidence to take the hotel over and ultimately achieve some semblance of organized peace. Most people wouldnt get past the words being said.
Lol
He isn’t being racist - I agree
That was probably the toughest Decision Dellaire or any other Soldier ever made
This brings tears to me eyes to see how they so easily threw aside the Rwandan people, and were only concerned with the Belgian citizens and foreigners living in the country at the time..
I agree in spirit, but you can't blame a government for looking out for their people. Ten belgian peacekeepers were already tortured and executed. I look at this comment section and everyone is blaming the belgians (mostly based on what this movie told them), and I think it's more complicated than that.
Yes, it’s more complicated and the movie does not tell them that the French govt bears heavy responsibility. Its troops were relentless in their persecutions there.
In their everyday life, civilians suffered physical and sexual assault from _FRENCH SOLDIERS_ and these acts often targeted the Tutsi population because of its ethnicity.
“A young Tutsi boy was ordered out of a vehicle _BY THE FRENCH._ A French soldier caught him by the arm and gave him a kick in the low belly. This blow caused him health problems that he never recovered from. He urinated blood and pus and later died.
Another young person was struck on the head _BY A FRENCH SOLDIER_ with the butt of a rifle. Since then, the victim has suffered from permanent mental disorder. He has been sick for the rest of his life.
As for me, _A FRENCH SOLDIER_ gave me three bayonet blows on the thigh. Here are the scars. ".
“Hutu militiamen brought a Tutsi civilian they had caught in Gishwati. _THE FRENCH_ asked what happened and got the explanation that the militiamen had caught a Tutsi suspect. They filmed the scene. Suddenly, somebody took a club and struck the person on the head. Another poured gasoline on the victim and set him on fire. He burnt to death in front of everyone. _THE FRENCH_ filmed the whole scene and went away. There were also Rwandan police officers present. It was the Mayor of Kanama, named Marius, who came later to make arrangements for his burial ".
On the night of 6th February 1993, a young Tutsi girl named Jeanne Mukarusine, aged 20 years at the time, was sexually assaulted very violently by _FRENCH SOLDIERS_ of Operation Noroit who were guarding Kanombe airport.
They caught her leaving a nightclub, ”Kigali Night” which belonged to the son of President Habyarimana. They then forced her into their car and began striking her and tearing her clothes off using bayonets. They violently inserted their fingers and a knife into her body. A few days later, Jeanne died of her wounds.
Often, the French military hierarchy was informed and consistently acted to protect the soldiers involved.
You Can't Handle The Truth Yeah until the end of the movie where he realizes that Wakanda should open itself to world.
You gotta understand,the army of any nation is there to protect their own countries citizens or their allies. Not to protect another’s.
@@nxshuu That’s where the problem is. The country called France had allied itself with the genocidaires. That’s who it was there to protect. And that’s absolutely reprehensible. The French regime could not at once protect both its genocidaire allies, and the genocidaires’ target which was the Tutsi population. On the contrary, the Paris regime contributed to the extermination of that population.
“There was no aspect of Rwandan life in which France did not intervene-from supplying weapons to training elite soldiers and youth militias to providing intelligence to providing financial support to devising military strategy to acting as international spin doctors to leading the Rwandan armed forces to manning roadblocks and asking for the notorious ID cards that revealed citizens’ ethnic origin.
Almost no authority believes that the Rwandan army could have held off the rebels for three years without French support, and if the Habyarimana gang had been overthrown, *T H E R E W O U L D H A V E B E E N N O G E N O C I D E.*
French politicians, French diplomats, and French soldiers blatantly lied about everything that was happening in Rwanda. George Orwell never had more faithful disciples in turning the truth completely on its head.”
[G. Caplan, 2008]
2:10 I remember this scene in class, and being the only black kid everyone stared at me
😂
As a fellow black man...This is the biggest cap every seen in my life.
Happened too me to
“They’re not going to stay Paul. They’re not going to stop the slaughter”.
This for me is one of the best scene in the entire movie. No bullshit straight up to the point
The way he says "African" is just amazing. You could straight up execute millions of Africans and here in the states no one would give a shit.
The reality of been African. But wouldn’t trade my Africana for nothing else...born and proud.
Rwanda was a class example of the effects of sudden and disorganized decolonization and the West's unwillingness to deal with world problems after the Cold War. When the Europeans left many of these African nations didn't stand a chance. There was no plan in place to ensure a peaceful transition of government, barely any infrastructure to run the nations because they were tailored to economic exploitation of resources, and a severe shortage of college educated and skilled workers. These three factors doomed many of these countries to a never ending cycle of civil war, anarchism, and third world status. This combined with the West unwilling to deal with these problems as the US did not want to deal with it and tried to pressure Europe to deal with it who were equally unwilling was the perfect storm for the genocide to happen
Another issue that no one including you will talk about and this exist more of an issue in the Middle East is UK as an example drawing geo political lines across tribal zones and religious sectors within nations so it was impossible for tribal people to get along with each other hence most civil wars in Africa were not even about politics, they were literally trying to kill other people for not sharing the same blood as them.
Caesar Seriona And I thought that diversity was a good thing
Constantine V Different clans do not get along, even in the US, you can find some levels of hostility between natives and white people as example.
Constantine V are you an idiot or something it is? Is idiots like you that cause problems when it happens.
How the fuck did you manage to twist Africans slaughtering each other and blame Europe lmao
In his book "Scapegoats", retired General Michael Scott (former British Army officer) portrays well what Dallaire was up against in Rwanda, from the Tutsi-Hutu fighting to the UN's intervention and the impossible scenario that he was pressed into trying to navigate. The Rwandan genocide, particularly from Romeo's point of view, should be required reading (viewing) for anyone in the upper echelons of UN/Western National command thinking of providing aid in such situations.
This movie was hard to watch - how he didn't get an Oscar for this movie is beyond me.
Because of the bar scene. Because it critiques the west. You may not like it but it is a major blemish on any movies chances of oscars
Damn such a powerful scene. So real. Captures the dividing line of color and segregation since the very beginning.
What?! Merde they screwed up General Delaire he'd never behave like that, US Hollywood shoot em up stuff. Watch his public speaking, his Documentary, his film Shake Hands With The Devil. You will see the real deal.
Watch BBC docu "Rwanda's untold story" looks like we werent told the whole truth about Rwanda's genocide.
Thats colonel oliver
@@justojaredo He's based on Dallaire. So obviously doesn't need to be a carbon copy. This scene is obviously him criticizing the West's response.
@@justojaredo there was no Canadian Col. Oliver only General Dellaire which nick nolte in this movie is based upon.
This made me cry and it’s sad to say that this is still relevant in today’s times
Sir, your line was “there not gonna help you”
Those Belgium cowards...
How sickening.
The solders that arrived were French. France and China supply the Hutu Army. General Delaire is Canadian
The Belgians are the reason there's so much trouble in that part of Africa to this day
probably one of the biggest shame for me and my country, France and my ancestors did all wrong...
@Armin Wessler I mean, they kind of invented the idea of the "Hutu" and "Tutsi" racial caste system, so...
@@CaptainOvious123for real. When you look at which European countries colonised Africa, the ones colonised by Belgium are by far the worst off today with former French colonies not far behind
Shame for Clinton for not taking action
Watch BBC docu "Rwanda's untold story" looks like we werent told the whole truth about Rwanda's genocide.
+JORBEL PRIME The US had literally only just left Somalia at this time. The American public was simply not interested in sending it's troops on another misadventure. Tragic and awful yes, but not without good reason. If anyone's to blame, it's the UN.
Not to mention it was Europe's mess to begin with as they caused it all and they acted like a kid hiding all their toys and crap in the closet to avoid actually cleaning
During this massacre the U.S. was literally in the balkans sending troops and planes to kill shit. don't bullshit us.
Purple Doc' Productions Rofl.
As if Clinton cares about black people
Sadly, the West still kinda thinks the same.
T 234 so you want us to come back?
I’m kinda confused. Is the West supposed to intervene and keep a presence everywhere they believe they should? Cause when it does, it’s being called imperialism. Be it the French in Sahel fighting off Islamists, American presence in the Korean DMZ or NATO patrols in the Baltic. A solution would probably be properly arming the UN peacekeepers and using them as a military force, but that would be very controversial and all it takes is one accident and it becoms evil imperialism once again...
@@TheBarca1889 Saying us like your directly influential in this 🤣. Sit down boy
@@martinmendl1399 the promblem was that they were already there and didn’t do anything, also yes military force should be used when laws against nature are violated (genocide).
For those of you complaining about the lack of action taken by the west at the time, keep in mind what can happen when the west does take action in a similar situation, ie Iraq in 2003, when Hussein was holding a minority rule in the country, killing off political dissidents, while committing genocide on the Kurds. Either way, it’s going to lead to some form of bloodshed and destabilization of the country in question. I’m sure many of you making those comments were not fond of the Iraq war. Reacting to Genocide will never have a peaceful and clean solution, regardless of what action (or lack thereof) is taken.
You have a point, of course, but inaction is not better by default than action. Besides, it does seem a little bit unfair that the United Nations, which is supposed to be a world-wide organization, would refuse to bring order to a nation when clearly needed and requested. Many people would not be happy if they did, but not doing it resulted in the deaths of so many. Some discontent is preferable to a genocide.
First of all two drastically different situations the west had already a presence in the country during the genocide some countries gave the killers the supplies necessary to commit this act
GRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!! >:( I just can't believe that when the army have arrived, they just leave those people of Rwanda to die!
allowed to die cause black and no oil there,,,
rob morgan or opium
James עליוני Black Lives Matter!
Hah stop believing in that victim attitude
@@SocialistFinn1 They were victims you stupid sod. It was a genocide
rob morgan
You make it sound like the people who allowed this are worse than the people who actually committed the murders
So much for United Nations
Harsh scene, but you don't get to cry "White man out! Africa for Africans" for decades, then cry "White man, come save us!" when you can't do the job.
bro shut the hell up
He never did that he invited white people to his hotel and also I don’t think Africans do that 😭
@@squiddytentacles2.5 Read the comment section. Everyone is complaining that whites didn't come to say the Africans from themselves.
@@squiddytentacles2.5 They have been doing exactly that in both Zimbabwe and South Africa ever since Mugabe and Mandela's terrorist organizations took power.
Such ignorance
In other words - 'We don't want another Mogadishu situation'
Instead we got a Rwandan situation. An infinitely worse one.
Top 10 times across weren’t really acting
I wish all governments in Africa to tell all televisions within countries to show this move 3 times a week then our people can learn how to trust themselves not other continents we are black Africans......
Oh I'm sure the super powers would be all over Rwanda if it was sitting on oil
I'm gonna be THAT guy!
Why exactly should the West have intervened? Rwandans killing Rwandans....why should the West loose our sons to fight/fix THEIR war? After all, how many troops did Rwanda send to overthrow Hitler? How many Venezuelans marched into Russia to rescue all those starving farmers under Stalin? Did Somalia send it's "Navy" to oppose Japan after Pearl Harbor?
And let's be CLEAR! It's not a race thing, except in the sense that each continent tends to have a single race living on it. If you want to ascribe race to the motivations, which "Blacks" are we refusing to save? Tribe A slaughtering Tribe B today (Tribe B who slaughtered Tribe A a generation ago BTW) or maybe stop the likely slaughter of Tribe A as reprisals for murders by Tribe B? Should the UN have marched into South Africa after Apartheid ended and tribes began CUTTING THE ARMS OFF members of other tribes so they couldn't vote?
And if you still think "YES! Intervene!" then I ask you .... When does that effectively become Colonialism all over again?
It comes down to the UN genocide convention, signed and ratified by the world, that genocide is to be prevented, stopped, and punished. Of course, all laws and treaties are at the end of the day words on paper, and we just sat and watched. For just humanitary reasons, preventing crimes against humanity, that's a fuzzy situation. We got involved in Somalia after famine killed 300,00 civilians, with mixed results.
@@usul573 Agreed generally, but looking back over history I am starting to take a "Prime Directive" view. Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War 1+2, Afghanistan, Somalia all started as UN operations or had UN approval, but all ended being "American" wars. The US dragged Japan into the modern world and decades later paid the price, along with uncounted Chinese. We backed the Russians against Germany in WWII, but the USSR ended up killing more people in the long run. We got rid of Saddam, but that allowed the rise of ISIS. We got rid of Khadafi, but now there are SLAVE MARKETS there!
So which genocides should we stop? All? If so where are the UN Troops protecting White South African farmers? The Muslims in China? And what happens when, as is often the case in Africa, you save Tribe A only to have them become the murders a few years later? This only has two possible outcomes, massive depopulation as the balance of power shifts over and over and we turn our military on each in turn, or permanent "Peace Keeping" forces which, IMO, would start to look like Colonialism pretty quick.
I just watched this movie last night and this scene absolutely pissed me off because of how they just desert them, even for such a small nation like Rwanda.
God. The line delivery in this scene is beyond words.
Great acting, script and overall film but the cinematography for me had the feel of a tv movie
War Machine meets Hulk's father!
I saw this in class when I was in 10th grade and what that man said seriously made my heart drop. Because my parnets are Nigerian immigrants but I'm was born in America. But I do consider myself African at times because that the culture my parnets gave me growing up. So when this man basically said that being Africian is worst than being black it really hit me hard and it was honestly the one of the hardest part of the movie for me to hear. I think it's a good thing that they said that in this movie so that people can get a better understanding of how Black people and Afrcians are seen
I was watching this in summer school, wanted to get ahead in my classes but ended up being roped into a class of flunked 10th graders. Nobody else really payed attention to the film, even when they got to this scene. I wished they had at least acknowledge it with a giggle.
Another Username 666 oh my god that’s so immature. We watched this & we’re freshmen and nobody laughed or giggled in my class. it was a serious scene with a heavy meaning and we knew.
Flawess Grace dude you shouldn't be considering yourself African cause you are African and you will always be African no matter where you're born. Black people in America are considered African first before American. #AfricanAmerican. You will always hear top people address you as African American and not American
@@golden4730 What a shitty way of thinking. If you werent born in Africa why would you call yourself African anything...
@@golden4730 nope. If you want to be African, be born in Africa. Otherwise you are just a black person living in another country. The white people born in Africa are not European, they are African. Same goes for black people abroad.
1:40 is what ukraine is to NATO if shit goes south either way
Ukraine is actually important to Europe, their security, their society, their economy. Rwanda is irrelevant in comparison. The idea that the West should've invaded Rwanda is laughable.
This is so reminiscent of what's going on in the Ukraine they are allowing white Ukrainian out but refusing Africans to leave to go home
Exaggerated footage. Ukraine at the time was not looking for political correctness. They’re not going to split Ukrainian families to cater to people who are there briefly. They all waited for the next train & left safely.
Despite this being a dramatization of the events. The basis of this story is the reason why the U.N. Peacekeepers need more leeway when engaging armed combatants. They're relegated to a posturing force, sometimes they're disallowed by the UNSC's (United Nations Security Council) Rules of Engagement from shooting back even when shot at. This isn't the only time during the multitude of Peacekeeping missions in Africa that are designed to protect civilians, refugees, and hospitals where the Peacekeepers could do nothing. Either the U.N. needs to expand the scope of the ROE for Peacekeepers or they need to discontinue the program in favor of something more effective.
Kind of stupid that my contemp. World teacher skipped this one scene while the rest of the movie shows actual genocide
As American I always respected the people of Africa. they are some feirce fighters than compared to ANP's or military of afghanistan.
That european commander was very honest in this clip.
He's canadian
That's a United Nations force. Commanded by a Canadian.
The commander is Canadian, you can say American in the broader sense.
amazing film even if it did over dramatize his role
Was a good film but may i add that Dollaire stated (and his fellow colleagues) they hated the film and if anyone wanted to learn of the terrible event of Rwanda then they should stay well clear off this film. Still a good film tho but i have to concur with the people who were there.
Well Paul used the hotel to extort profit from the refugees and turned them over to the militia if they were unable to keep paying for their stay.
I’d say it’s just a tad bit off. The film paints him as a saint while he was actually an abhorrent piece of shit, but it’s just a minor difference
Kind of damned if you do, damned if you don't, for the European powers. It would look really bad if former colonial powers went all in on a fight in a African country.
No They wouldn’t beacause they started the ethic violence look up what the Belgians did in 1959 before leaving
If only Bill Clinton helped 😕 🤔
FBA is the Culture
It's crazy how we in the west see race as mere skin color.
In Rwanda, the Hutu's massacred the Tutsi's because they were a different race.
Crazy how "race" and "racism" mean different things to different cultures. We in the west think that everyone uses our definitions because of our pride.
Credit where it's due to the colonel. He didn't try to justify or lie about what was going on. He gave it to him straight and felt guilty that his superiors and the west are willing to turn a blind eye to such injustice. "You should spit in my face" he wouldn't blame him for feeling resentful but feels worse that he won't, at least it would have been easier.
One of the few times where a heroic white character says the n-word to a black protagonist in order to make a point.
Agreed
That's why dollaire was so depressed
i have watched this movie god know how many time, but 2:08 this scene shocks me every single time i watch it.
I really don't understand what he means by saying he is black but not an N word, I really don't get it. I understand that the N word is an insult specifically for black people but...I don't get his logic (not trying to offend)
@@dialp4_csgo n word is african american. aka US citizen
@@dialp4_csgo He was saying your not worth fighting for..
@@kevinw9806n****r was originally used for American indians
You are soldiers! Is it not your job to defend the weak? the innocent. FOR SHAME!
Soldier job were to follow orders. You didn't do something beyond orders unless needed. In this case he would lost his finest UN troops. The rebels were heavily armed.
@@islamicschoolofmemestudies and yet they send UN peacekeepers? why not send in an armed force to get them all out? logistics aside, it should've been option #1 instead of this dick move
@@AllGamingStarred if they did, the blacks would twist it by accusing them of neocolonialism.
@@DivineHyperion neo what now?
They had orders, evacuate the Europeans, and get out.
Cheif Zabach from House of Israel brought me here. Shalawam.
APTTMHY........"True" Israel *STAND UP* !!!
2:08-2:16 One of the most underrated lines in cinema history. Look at the bomb blast in Somalia three days ago for example. Most people don't even know it happened.
I agree completely. Those lines stuck with me more than anything else when I watched Hotel Rwanda.
These days in "the West," we hear a lot of things in the media about racial justice, but events in sub-Saharan Africa don't seem to capture our attention in the same way. "You're not even a [N-word], you're an African" captures this attitude perfectly; if we're going to claim that Black lives matter, shouldn't all Black lives matter, and not just people of African descent living in Western countries? Just because someone lives half a world away shouldn't make them any less human than someone who lives in the same country as I do.
@@sbclaridge It should but there comes a point with all the problems in the world that you'll go insane caring about them all day long.
There is a difference between Africans and black Americans two separate nations
That's what the guy just said lol
Not just Black Americans, but The Whole African Diaspora, Bantus in Africa, and *certain" West African Tribes. In other words, he was saying there's a difference between Africans(Hamites) and Israelites.
Such a powerful scene
The most Hypocritical thing I remember was the French finally intervening by occupying the south Rwanda to stop RPF from driving out the last hutu troops .....
Rwandans i salute you !!
UN: Never again...
Rwanda and Bosnia: Are we a joke to you?!
I never understood un peace keeping forces. They're just there to watch
no but they almost never have enough soldiers to conduct offensive operations so the only thing they can do is to defend an area
They did help guard some people, helped with communications and supplies, but yes their mission was considered a failure. 270 UN peacekeeping troops can't stop a 100,000 strong militia from committing genocide during a civil war. They were under strict orders to not fire unless fired upon where they were posted to guard or help. If they escalated the militia might have killed all of them.
Hey youtube. I was just quoting you on a clip YOU sent me. I didn't ask for it but it showed up in my recommendations anyway. How am I at fault?
The REAL issue with this conflict is (very shortened) the Hutu wanted to ERADICATE the Tutsi, then the Tutsi started winning and taking revenge and THEN the West interfered to stop the Tutsi cuz the Hutu offered them a better deal on the ressources. Im a german, and compared to the history of my country, (fiction) its like the West would have interfered in the Prussian-Franco war against Prussia even though France started the war, just cuz Prussia wasnt as eager to grant the West more influence in its politics. Thus preventing the unification of germany. If the West just let the Tutsi take revenge and consult their power, of cource there would have been more killing, but also the rise of a stronger, more autonomous nation state, and thus the fundament for future development.
Well, the Hutu make up 87% of the population. They genocided the Tutsi but the Tutsi Rebels the Patriotic Front, won the war and pushed the Rwanda Hutu Army out. Now to stop another genocide by the Tutsi rebels the west got involved. Remember, the Tutsi rebels could have killed millions of Hutus. Regarding resources? Rwanda doesn't have any. Its a small over populated nation. It has the lowest mineral production in Africa. I know some Africans like to point and blame the West, but this was an African problem.
2:10 LOL
2 Kings 18:21 - Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
NOT MY PROBLEM
He tried to get them to help. But they won't. So what else can you do about it? Drink.
Oof. Right in the feels.
drunken honesty is some of the worst kind of honesty you can be exposed to
Truth hurts though 🤕
"Not enough people saved me when my state failed its promise to govern themselves and that proves everyone else is bad" the movie.
worse the west sponsored the genocide , the french sold machetes and weapons to the hutu , ... the whole shit heated up bcuz of colnisation so yeah the west deserve the blame
Everyone else is bad because they sat back and watched. They love screaming never again but time and time again they just sit back and allow it to happen over anf over again
Couldn't Nolte have at least tried to do a Canadian accent?
Rwanda abandoned Rwanda. Why is it the rest of the world's fault?
Even their own state TV no longer denies it! ua-cam.com/video/aB1qywsmaLs/v-deo.html
Gut wrenching scene.
Donald Trump's "shithole countries"
2:21 turn subtitles on 😂
This is no laughing matter you dumb edgy kid. People were genocide, you SHOULD have been among them
The people in charge of the UN 🇺🇳 mission should be trailed for there failure of this peacekeeping mission
And this case is send to archive under forgotten country that ever exists
Where the Black Panther when you need him.
Other then the west, Pakistan was helping.
Its not the west role to intervene whenever theres a tribal war in africa. Respecting african soverignity and ability to solve their own issues is not rascism.
Then the west should stop funding insurgents and stop illegaly fishing and mining in Africa. Oh wait that’s gonna cost them money where do you think all those minerals for those components in your phone comes from. That’s right Africa west is exploiting the continent and pretending it’s not their fault if it’s unstable
@@FrenchToastQc You need to direct that at the right people. The Chineese.
Then the West (Belgium) should not have segregated Rwanda in the first place. It was the Belgians that said that Hutu were European looking and the Tutsi were savages. It was the French who willingly sold the Hutu weapons in order to commit the violence. The West was already in the country; they just chose to watch their international policies do what it did best. If Western nations don't want to be blamed for their policies and actions fucking things up, stop fucking things up!
Kind of like what is happening in Sudan right now!
Saddest scene in the movie.
If he's Canadian, he should be drinking rye. The REAL Whisky
Well....when you're stressed out like that, any hooch will do...
2:11 sir your line was “you’re not getting out with the soldiers”
Senator Romeo Dallaire
So many things are wrong with this scene just like the rest of the movie! The soldiers at 0:43 are holding rifles. In other words they aren’t officers but simple riflemen. Yet they are engaged in deep and decisive discussions with Dallaire, a General? How is that even thinkable?
There is no discussion. He is the ranking UN officer talking to a Belgian soldier. The Belgian soldier informs him that the Belgians are taking the foreigners and leaving.
Those two things would be known by any Belgian soldier there and they would be allowed to say that to a UN colonel.
It's silly to assume that officers in an active war zone wouldn't carry a weapon.
Hotel Wakanda
He just told you the truth
Heartbreaking.
For all of you who think the UN or whoever should have invaded the country or something. How do you expect for the Tutsi army to then have taken over the country if that happened? The west or whoever clearly knew the outcome of the WAR would be the much more funded tutsi army would eventually win and reimpose tutsi minority rule over the hutu. That was the expected and wanted outcome. And is the outcome that occurred. "the powers that be" didn't want a hutu nation.
It's politics! No one likes it! No one want's to talk about it! What happened in Rwanda is simply bad government. Same things are happening in the west. You had minorities who were discriminated against. The majority banded with them to make the inequality of opportunity finally illegal. But that wasn't good enough. The government demanded the power to use race and sex to favor the minorities. After we took away their power to favor the majorities. Now there is quota diversity in universities and at jobs. We are complicit or even justify our neighbor being demonized and his rights being stolen by the government cause it's a right we don't care to exercise. As it always goes, the pendulum will, one day, swing back. The level division and injustice faced between now and then will determine the fate of the minority at the hands of extremists in the majority. The removal of rights will leave them entirely unable to defend themselves when that judgement comes.
Just think? In the USA with the "mostly peaceful protests", according to left wing media and Democrats, that took place over the last year. How many lost their business, their investment and their future? Of all the riots in all the cities, with left wing base, left wing government preventing policing and justice for the people responsible. How many were destroyed? How many would kill for the injustice if given the opportunity? The exact same Ideology that discriminated against and terrorized the minority is now favoring the minority and allowing, instigating and excusing all injustice by them to try and once again stir up the hate in the majority that allowed them to enslave and discriminate in the first place. Don't say it can't happen cause all those responsible spread the blame and were never held responsible nor was their ideological political party.
Pay close attention to what happened in Rwanda. Pay far closer attention to why and how. It was simply politics and after a time of discrimination and protection The tables turned and the majority with many full of hate and under extremists carried out this atrocity. The person that commented below me said people will call this horrible then go back to eating? Well, we are watching the setup to it happening again right now by still supporting race favoritism and sex favoritism under the name of diversity and we don't even recognize it because people recognize the what but engage the blinders when they hear the why because they know they are allowing it and maybe even pushing the why right in front of their eyes in real time. If it's not stopped the horrifying what will happen again and it's only a matter of time. But, this time the river road covered in bodies may be the river by where you live. We need to band together and again Remove all government and institutional right and ability to discriminate based on race and sex once again and I pray we do it soon.