Description
watch hotel rwanda movie and analyze it relationing the movie and the country rwanda's politic system
3 pages lenght and 3 sources required on a separate page (4th page)
Explanation & Answer
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Running head: HOTEL RWANDA
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Hotel Rwanda
Name of Student
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HOTEL RWANDA
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Hotel Rwanda
Hotel Rwanda is a 1994 Rwanda genocide based film. Similarly, it explains the political
hatred that led to a massacre of more than eight hundred thousand Rwandese citizens. Rwanda
has two main tribes that include Hutus and Tutsis. The conflict between Tutsis and Hutus was
sparked by corruption and bribery in the political field of Rwanda. However, the conflict has its
roots from the Belgians who had colonized Rwanda (Hotel Rwanda, 2012). Belgians used the
strategy of divide and rule to separate Hutu and Tutsi along tribal line. The film shows Tutsi as
the leading minority with twenty percent of the total population and Tutsi comprise of eighty
percent. Animosity grew since Belgians used to favor Hutus as the only tribe with leadership
values in comparison to Tutsis. Therefore, they would give them a privileged status. This
resentment brought about much hatred among the minorities who were Hutus.
In the long run, Hutus got tired of political leadership and ideologies of Tutsis. Thus, they
decided to retake the power using force. This is what led the civil war in Rwanda between Hutus
and Tutsis. Political tension in the country escalates as a result of the death of their president
Habyarimana who had been assassinated. The extremists from the Hutu tribe killed more than
half a million people (Hotel Rwanda, 2012). The genocide ends when it is too late since many
Hutus lose the...