Hotel Rwanda

I know this is a little late but here are my thoughts after seeing Hotel Rwanda. I was surprised by the amount of people that were killed during the genocide. In the United States, most people knew that something bad was happening but they probably did not know to what degree. The movie shows a person how bad the situation really was. The scene where there were hundreds of bodies laying in the road put the size of the genocide into a real perspective. Another thing that shocked me was that the industrialized countries did not interfere more. The UN was trying to help but they proved to be worthless. If genocide where to happen in an industrialized country today, many other countries would commit some type of help but since it was happening in an African country, the countries barely even cared. The movie made me think of the current genocide in Sudan. The UN and other countries need to commit to stopping the genocide, but again since the countries are third world it is not a top priority. The industrialized nations saw what Hitler did with his genocide and they only got involved after most of the damage had been done. Hopefully, the west will send help before it is too late.