Hotel Rwanda

Hotel Rwanda was a crash course into understanding the conflicts between the Hutu and Tutsi people, as well as recreating the scenes of the 1994 genocide of approximately a million people.

The ridiculous thing is Hutus and Tutsis aren't different races. Tutsis were "anyone with more than ten cows or a long nose". And this distinction was made by, *gasp gasp* of all people, Belgians. It's like some white folks went over, measured their noses, counted their cattle, and stamped either "Hutu" or "tutsi" on their ID. That's their big divide.

Next time they'll one-up it. We'll make them play oh-ah-peh-ah-som. Palms up will start the ball rolling and stab a few palm down folks. Hey, any good excuse to murder a few of your fellow man rite?

And you wondered why most of Africa is in its existing state of affairs.

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"We all knew we would die, no question. The only question was: how? Would they chop us in pieces? With their machetes they would cut your left hand off. Then they would disappear and reappear a few hours later to cut off your right hand. A little later they would return for your left leg, etc.—they went on till you died. They wanted to make you suffer as long as possible. There was one alternative: you could pay soldiers so they would just shoot you. That's what her [Tatiana's] father did."

—Paul Rusesabagina in Humo, nr. 3365, March 1, 2005