Essay On Hotel Rwanda

Millions of people around the world have never heard of the Rwandan genocide. May do not even know where Rwanda is or even what a genocide is. In 1994 the culture clash between the Hutu and the Tutsi exploded into a civil war and mass genocide. The United Nations along with the developed world sat back doing little or nothing and watched thousands of people die. The movie Hotel Rwanda illustrates the powerful representation of that horrific genocide, and highlights key points important to international politics. The movie sets the stage by following a hotel manager, a Hutu. He is struggling to keep his family and friends alive, while trying to maintain the integrity of his hotel. The storyline shows the beginnings of the war and mass killings. It illustrates the long time feud between the Hutu and the Tutsi, the movie alludes to the fact that Belgium created this feud. In the movie reporters try to figure out the differences between the Hutu and the Tutsi, physically they look identical. The so called differences were created by the Belgians, the Hutu and the Tutsi were more alike than different. The movie itself is very powerful, to see the hatred portrayed could only be imagined by people today. Unless you were there to experience it, the nest best thing would be to educate yourself as to what happened and how it happened. This movie although entertaining shows the different things that happened during the genocide.
The disgust towards one another is said to be more than just ethnic struggle, but rather
In realism human nature is selfish and the key of the state is to maximize power (especially military power). As for the “clash of civilizations” the conflict is between cultures and not states. In Rwanda the fight is within the state between the two cultures (Hutu and Tutsi). By combining both theories it can explain the fight for power between the