What is needed in the face of massacres?

Kiley 2022-03-21 09:03:07

The film strongly expresses the dissatisfaction with the withdrawal of the UN troops and the powerlessness of the priest and God. I feel biased. The nature of the UN peacekeeping forces determines that they cannot interfere in the internal affairs of other countries and participate in the suppression of rioters. Their withdrawal is only out of frustration. After all, politics is complicated, and the politics involving many countries are even more complicated.
I have a feeling, however, that when we see this inhumane massacre, what can we find other than grief, anger, and powerlessness? What do the Tutsi need? Not a UN peacekeeping force! Not God! What they need is a revolutionary! When the lives of everyone in the entire race are lost, what they need is resistance! It's a revolution! instead of pseudo-peace!
800,000 people were killed in this massacre! And they are mainly facing some mob! It would be especially clear what the outcome would have been if some of these people could stand up and organize the Tutsi people against the atrocities. A nation that does not know how to resist is pathetic, and a nation that relies on outside help will never achieve true peace. Peace, in your own hands!

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  • Merl 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    The TV movie looks unpleasant, but it's better than the ones made by CCTV6. I thought it was a very cliché plot, but it was a little accident in the end, or in other words, it was some meaty people in this kind of movie. In front of them are not picky, and this is originally a documentary nature.

  • Lukas 2022-03-22 09:02:45

    Very sad movie, will the world be any better?

Shooting Dogs quotes

  • Capitaine Charles Delon: What's going on here is not my choice, okay? Being here and doing nothing is also not my choice. I'm a military commandor with a mandate to observe. I can do no more.

    Rachel: You are the UN, show it.

    Capitaine Charles Delon: But I'm not the Security Council. They make our mandate. Why don't you call New York and get a chance, because, let me tell you, we have tried. And please, let me know how far you get.

  • Christopher: You know what, Joe. People have been coming to Mass here for God knows how long. They get up, they go to church, they sing, they eat the bread and then they leave. Do you know why? Because they are told to. They just go through the motions without the slightest understanding of what it is they are engaged in. Whether they are being told to eat a wafer or hack their own flesh and blood to death.