I was there


I am a Rwanda of Origin. I highly recommended this movie. It is realy all the truth...
The French School, the Church, The action of UN soldiers!
What did we do to deserve this?
Are Rwandans the damned, most sinners people so that we can say the God punished us??
The consequences are still around in Rwanda and neighbour countries.
God save thier souls.

I wouls like to possess a DVD of it but I don't have any Idea how...
Anyone who can help me will be welcomed.

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Omg I haven't seen this movie but I would like to. I just saw Hotel Rwanda and it made me cry. I don't think I have the stomache for this movie but I will try. I honestly don't know how to get a hold of the DVD. Maybe go to a video store and see if they have it there? I believe that you all shouldn't have gone through this. But, humans are so cruel that things like this are bound to happen. I am truly sorry for what happened. It is so horriable that humans would treat eachother so badly.

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The DVD is available at amazon.com. I bought it last week, and prescreened it tonight for one of my psychology lecture courses. I was going to show the excellent Hotel Rwanda, but, despite the brilliant Don Cheadle, there was something unsatisfying about that film as an educational tool. Usually, I show documentaries (the best one I've seen on Rwanda was Triumph of Evil, which I saw at a Human Rights Film Festival, and just can't find anywhere for sale - which seems silly for a movie whose purpose is to spread the message about modern genocides), but Sometimes in April is almost as good as Triumph of Evil was.
Good luck!

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i just bought it on amazon.co.uk. so there are ways to get it. they had both region one and two, which was great news :-D

what did you think of shooting dogs? I was disappointed to be honest, but would be interested in your views.

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Have you tried Ghosts of Rwanda? Believe its a PBS documentary...
try online at Borders.com or fredmeyer.com in the dvd/music/electronic section

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Thank you for the recommendation! My boyfriend is also a survivor of this conflict and I am really just trying to understand what happened so I can understand him better. Its hard for him to talk about it, so I am using these outside sources to find my own information. God bless you

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Hello, I just saw the movie at my University tonight. Im taking a cours of Africa.
and I remember reading that before French colonize the territory that now is Rwanda Hutu and Tutsi's where originally leaving without hate from each other and even shareing land, having intertribe marriages and so on. But that because French colony did not want them to be united (because could be against them) they put the Hutu's in a higher status (belonging to the french army), creating disputed against TutsiĀ“s

Regards

Ricardo

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Actually, ritcho-1, it was the Belgians who colonized Rwanda. For those of you who intend on seeing this movie, here is a little background info. The Belgians colonized Rwanda, putting the Hutus as an "upper class", and the Tutsis as a "lower class". Later, the Belgins left and said they wanted a Hutu president who would be equally fair to both groups. The Hutus thought he was being a little too nice to the Tutsis, so a group of their own men shot down their own presidents plane and blamed it on the Tutsis, which is where the movie starts off.

Enjoy!

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Hello, unfortunetly the information you posted is incorrect. You have it backwards. The Belgians appointed the Tutsis to the higher positions, and relegated the Hutus to the lower social class. It was the Belgians that said if you had more than ten cows you were a tutsi regardless of what you looked like.lcial class. When the Belgians were getting ready to leave, and seeing the increase in the protest by Hutus for equal rights, the Belgians gave more power to the majority Hutus shortly before independence. When this happened, in 1959 the Tustis's left Rwanda because they were afraid of the Hutu's doing to the Tutsi what the Tusti did to the Hutus during colonial rule. Also, its been proven in court and in eyewiness testimony in the US andn in Europe that the Hutu's did not get together and shoot down the plans carrying the Rwandan and Burundian presidents. It was Paul Kagame, the current presdnt of Rwanda (and himself a Tutsi) who ordered the plane shot down. The upcoming movie THE HOLOCAUST WAR goes into detail and shows everything, including how 40,000 hutu civilians were killed by the Tusti army when they invaded and how the Kagames troops hunted down and killed 800,000 Rwandan refugees hiding in eastern Congone. I read the script a few months ago on a flight to Europe. I can't wait to see it in theatres. Later.

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can't find any info on that movie (the holocaust war), can you direct to a source?

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i finally saw the movie saturday night, and i was in aw....Hotel Rwanda was a great movie but i think this movie showed in better detail what happen to the people of Rwanda...I was under the impression that only tutsi members were just being killed but i learned that hutu doctors, lawyers, teacher, etc.. were being targeted...Crazy that the united states sat back and let this happen....Like the General said Rwanda had no oil, or nothing of value so the United states didn't even value resources enough to save the land, let alone the people....peace

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If you dont mind me asking, are you a Hutu or a Tutsi?

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this is a wonderful film. much more affecting and politically in depth than either HR or SD. Raoul Peck really did his research and kept faithful to the reality of the situation. most definately recommend it. so moving.

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Have you learned nothing? Why the H@!! should this matter to you?

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probably because the Tustis that came back from Uganda in 1994 are running the country and oppressing everyone else in Rwanda. The question should be, have the Tusti's learned anything from pre-1959?

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http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com is where I just received my copy from.

ostovich: You will not find it primarily because it was a PBS special.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/evil/ has two links that may be of interest: Tapes & Transcripts; For Educators. Good luck!

michellespraggy: I did not remember them shooting dogs in this movie. Then again, it has been ages since I saw it last. Just got my copy yesterday, so I will be reliving the horror momentarily.

What is "SD"? I assume "HR" meant "Hotel Rwanda". Slow it down a bit for us morons.

ajean73: Decaffeinated coffee.

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SD stands for Shooting Dogs, I believe. It is the last of the three films dramatizing the Rwandan genocide. It tells the story of a techincal school where over 2,500 Tutsis were sheltered by the UN, but on the fifth day of the genocide, after the 10 Belgian soldiers were killed, the UN pulled out, even though the Interhamwe were standing at the gates, leaving all of the people to die.

It is very hard to find, but if you are interested in the subject then I fully recommend this film. If you don't have a problem with downloading movies, then you can find a torrent for it on torrentspy.com, but if possible you should probably buy a copy.

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Thank you very much for the information. I obviously did not make the connection.

I watched Sometimes in April the other night and thought, "What the heck was she talking about? No one shoots any dogs. He throws a rock at one."

Anyway, I will look into the options you provided. Thanks.

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They killed most of the dogs in Rwanda because they had been feasting on the mutltitude of human corpses. SAD but TRUE!

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At one point in Shooting Dogs, the UN soldiers speak of the necessity to shoot the dogs who are feeding on cadavres near the gate. One of the refugees mentions, "oh, so although there is no "mandate" to use weapons, it's ok to shoot dogs, just not to protect us!!!

It's quite a poignant moment in the film.

***So I've seen 4 movies/wk in theatre for a 1/4 century, call me crazy?**

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Whether Hutu or Tutsi it doesn't matter. They were all black people, they're all Africans! It infuriates me that this kind of thing happens and it's blacks doing it to blacks, and they're too stupid to see that it was all initiated by an outside "white" foreign force. No matter what you are, as a human being this is a travesty of the highest level. I'm so sick of politicians and heads of government saying one thing and doing another, when all along if there's no monetary gain in it for them, then you're S.O.L.! After Hitler you heard the words "Never Again" how many accounts of slaughter and genocide have happened since then Cambodia, Sudan, Samolia, Kosovo, Rwanda, South Africa (Apartheid), and countless many others. We as humans have to put an end to this sesspool of discuss and hate amongst each other. Do you know of all God's creations who have commited the most atrocious acts towards each other....HUMANS! No where in the animal kingdom will you find beast treating each other with such evil and contempt. Animals are instictive and have no intelligence, we are supposed to be the ones with the brains. If animals would act as humans have to each other we'd have no animal ecological system. All I can say the best place to start is with the person in the mirror, make a pledge to be part of the solution, and if you can't do that then make one to "NOT" be part of the problem. When it all boils down, we're all part of the same race..."HUMAN". If anyone remember the movie Independence Day, you'd be surprised of how many people didn't get the "point" of that movie. The alien force wasn't here to just annihilate blacks, whites, hispanics, arabs, orientals, etc... they were going to annihilate HUMAN BEINGS!! I really sometimes wonder if it would take a catastrophe of that magnitude before we'd as global community see that we're all "people" no matter what shade of skin, religion, belief, sexuality, or any difference, we're all "HUMAN BEINGS". Be part of the solution, not the problem.

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amen to that

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So be it...

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Are you seriuous, WHAT GENOCIDE IN KOSOVO??? Liar...

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Kim-david-s...I need to let you know that your questions is hugely offensive to the Rwandan people. As being a 'westener' myself and having recently visted Rwanda, we were educated on the 'do's and dont's'. I hope you understand that there is still a lot of heart-ache and tension in Rwanda, and that question in a way is like you taking sides and you valueing your opinion as to be better or worse for a certain tribe. I hope you understand.

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How do you feel this movie compares with "Hotel Rwanda"?

I thought "Sometimes in April" was far superior to "Hotel Rwanda". Since you were there I would value your opinion.

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The most touching movie I ever saw. Period.

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