Ethical Issues In Hotel Rwanda

Trough watching the movie ‘Hotel Rwanda’ it shows a saddening and disheartening side of the Rwanda Genocide. The Rwandan Genocide began on the 6th of April 1994, where the Hutu population began mass slaughtering of the Tutsi. There were two different groups killing people they were, the Interahamwe and the Hutu rebellious. The genocide killed upwards of eight hundred thousand people mainly Tutsi, and created two million refugees. The genocide was a major mass killing where people still to this day being convicted of mass murdering and being jailed.
During Rwanda’s genocide there were two different ethnic groups fighting, they were the Hutu and the Tutsis. The Hutus were the original occupiers of the land, until the Tutsi found and arrived on the land in the fifteenth century. From the beginning the Hutu and Tutsi did not get along with each other but began to intergrat with one
The catholic teaching of ‘Life and dignity of the human person’ represents how shocked the world as human life is sacred and that the dignity of a human person is the foundation of the moral version of society. It shows how the nation were scared and worried for those that were going through it, it was unjust and unfair treatment that no one should have gone through. The catholic social teaching of ‘call to family, community and participation’, this represents the organisation of society in our economics and politics, in law and policy, directly affects how the community and how we grow. It was the reason international agencies became involved as it was not going to be stopped any other way, for example the military were sent in to protect and stop any more Tutsis from being killed; the United Nations were also sent in to protect people as they could control people without using violence. Both of these organisations worked together to stop and keep the peace in