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Relates to Srebrenica, Bosnia in a way


I just saw the trailer, and will see the move, the story reminded me to Srebenica genocide in Bosnia in '90s. There were Muslim refugees "protected" by UN with a stict order not to intervene, not to choose sides, even though the whole place was surrounded with Bosnian Serbs.

Highest ranked UN official was from Holland and was "forced" to say refugees are "under UN protection" even he had no man, fire or political power to stop upcoming events. There was a slaughter in Srebrenica, and the Dutch government resigned because of it.

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It's based on General Romeo Dalliare's Memoirs, about Rwanda. Everything in the movie is based on a real event.

~Thanato

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