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HOTEL RWANDA
- HOTEL RWANDA
: Hollywood and the Holocaust in Central Africa
What happened in Rwanda in 1994? The standard line is that a calculated genocide occurred because of deep-seated tribal animosity between the majority Hutu tribe in power and the minority Tutsis. According to this story, at least 500,000 and perhaps 1.2 million Tutsis---and some moderate Hutus--were ruthlessly eliminated in a few months, and most of them were killed with machetes. The killers in this story were Hutu hard-liners from the Forces Armee Rwandais, the Hutu army, backed by the more ominous and inhuman Interahamwe militias---"those who kill together."
The award-winning film Hotel Rwanda offers a Hollywood version and the latest depiction of this cataclysm. Is the film accurate? It is billed as a true story. Did genocide occur in Rwanda as it is widely portrayed and universally understood? With thousands of Hutus fleeing Rwanda in fear of the Tutsi government and its now operational village genocide courts, is another reading of events needed? (With new research based on recent work in Central Africa. Final text published: 08 December 2005; revised 10 January 2006. )
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- RWANDAs SECRET WAR
: U.S-Backed Destabilization of Central Africa
February 2005 -- Special Report from Dem. Rep. of Congo (DRC)
An edited version of this story appeared in Z Magazine in February, 2005. An early version of this story appeared in World War 3 Report in December 2004. This is the original unedited and updated version of the WW3 Report feature. (there are more than 20 militias in eastern CONGO and 19 militias in Burundi. - see also: http://www.ww4report.com)
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- THE GRINDING MACHINE: TERROR AND GENOCIDE IN RWANDA
: keith harmon snow Interviews Paul Rusesabagina, the ordinary man who inspired the film Hotel Rwanda; with introductory remarks.
Published 25 April 2007 by Toward Fredom. Please see the photographs in the on-line version at Toward Freedom on-line. See also Hotel Rwanda: Hollywood and the Holocaust in Central Africa, in this section of All Things Pass. ( - see also: http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/1022/0/)
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