Frontline: Ghosts of Rwanda
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Brand: ParamountDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS
Movie Reviews of Frontline: Ghosts of Rwanda
Movie Review: If you've never seen this, you must see it.
Summary: 5 Stars
Dallaire was a tragic hero, totally deserted, who blames himself for being deserted. Mbaye Diagne was a hero, a martyr for peace, and a Muslim not often mentioned these days. Too few people know these heros' names, or what they did, in spite of being hung out to dry by the UN.
But, the world gave Kofi a Nobel Prize for Peace, and that is the very definition of injustice. The UN/World Community/US acted shamefully.
View it along with reading Dallaire's book "Shake Hands with the Devil", as well as David Rieff's book, "A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis."
These men saved what lives they could, in spite of the rest of the world, including all of us not there, telling them not to do it, or at least, tolerating leaders who were telling them not to do it.
What is happening in Darfur today is linked to what happened in Rwanda, as well as Somalia before that. The necessity of AU Peacekeeping forces should be a slap in the face of the world community/UN. It's an acknowledgement of the failure of UN Peacekpeeing. It is Africa showing us that the UN is a joke, that Africa knows it is on its own. Look at how easily the local warlords have kept any hint of a UN 'Peacekeeping' mission out of Darfur: simply by threatening 'Jihad', by the UN's own idiotic mandate, it is precluded from entering the conflict. Of what possible use is a force that is restricted, by its own mandate, to defend only itself? Logic cries out that is best done in the parking lot at East 44th street, it is not necessary to deploy half way around the world to rudely defend only yourself in front of innocents desperately in need of defense!
The UN is the world's official fig leaf excuse for endlessly doing everything possible short of actually doing anything.
Shame on us all, shame on the UN. It's not just "Who are these idiots?" but "Who are the idiots who tolerate these idoits?"
That is us. not the heros at the pointy end of the stick, like Dallaire, who pay the price for our tolerance of idiots.
This piece is a damning indictment of the UN/ThirdWay.
Summary of Frontline: Ghosts of Rwanda
In addition to interviews with key government officials & diplomats this offers groundbreaking eyewitness accounts of the genocide from those who experienced it first hand: from tutsi survivors: to the diplomats on the scene: to the un peacekeepers who were ordered not to intervene. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/10/2005 Run time: 120 minutes Rating: NrSimilar DVD Movies
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