11/30 星期五

昨晚在youtube上看关于RWANDA大屠杀的纪录片一直到早晨, 今天下午才到办公室. [Shooting dogs], 一部关于1994年RWANDA种族屠杀的电影, 我觉得没有[HOTEL RWANDA]拍得好, 角度不同. [HOTEL RWANDA]是从RWANDA人的角度来看当年的惨剧, 绝望, 恐惧, 悲哀... [SHOOTING DOGS]是从外部世界的角度, 从西方人的眼睛来看, 而且太多宗教痕迹在其中, 因为主角是教会学校的白人教师 and priest. One little girl asked, "does Jesus even love those people outside? (the hutu militia, the killers)" The priest said, "Jesus loves everyone." Later when French troops came to the school, their order was to take only white people to the safe area. If you are white, you go to the safe area and live, if you are black, sorry, wait here to die. How ironic, I guess Jesus might love everybody, but he definitely loves white much more. Somehow I couldnt help wondering, what about indians, or arabs, or asians? If I was there, I would be considered one of the whites to be rescued? or would be left with africans to die?

In both of the movies, there are the journalist roles by whom the cruelest fact has been stated. In Hotel Rwanda, the manager expected to get help from the rest of the world after the genocide video being broadcasted, the BBC guy told him, "people would watch the horrible news during dinner, and they would say, how awful, then they would back to their dinner. that is the reality." In Shooting Dogs, BBC again, the lady said, "I was crying everyday when I was in Bosnia, cos everytime I saw those dead women, white, I thought they could be my mother. But here, I never cried, cos they are just dead Africans." Most white left, some stayed, trying to save as much as they could, UN did nothing, Gen Romeo Dallaire was there, asking for help, "there are people who will be chopped  if nobody protects them." Well, I guess if there was OIL, maybe the rest of the world would fight for going to "help", benefit, profit, money talks, this is the world we are living in. I think I will check out the book written by Romeo Dallaire, --[Shake Hands with the Devil]. I like one quote in the movie,

"The opposite side of faith is not heresy, but indifference."

1994, over 800,000 men, women, children died in about 100 days genocide, the rest of the world turned away. There is a Catholic church in Rwanda, about 5,000 people were killed inside. The documentary shows that, one BBC journalist went to the church with some tutsi officers in 1994 after the genocide, those dead bodies still there, its literally the hell. At the door of the church, the white statue of Jesus opening his arms, and right under the statue, there was a chopped body. The journalist said, he was a loyal Catholic, but after he saw that, he thought he needed some stronger faith. When those bureaucrats who are in their expensive Armani suits and sitting in comfortable offices are saying "Never Again", it does not really mean anything.

Recommend the documentaries in youtube, it might be too far from our daily life, but worth cares.