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Watched this movie today and it was matter of factly brutal. It was amazing that people in a minority group could rise up and kill so many in such a short time frame. They said that less than 24 hours after the command ("cut down the tall trees") had been given to signal the start of the massacre, they pulled over 40,000 corpses out of one lake. How the fuck you march 40,000 people to the lake and kill them?
Also, I didnt' understand why the Tutsi rebels did not react swiftly. They were better armed, machine guns and grenades against machetes. Also, there were more rebels than Hutus so it should have been squashed really quick.
I guess the Hutus caught them by surprise, but they started the massacre in the middle of the night against civilians.
On a side note, not related to this movie... I remember reading the story in Readers Digest of a top level marathon runner who was from Rwanda and survived the massacre. He was actually in school when his classmates turned on him and started butchering all the Titsu people. The soldiers came and then burned the school to the ground. He survived by jumping out the window. He tried to kill himself first by jumping off a desk and then stairs and deliberately landing on his head. He only knocked himself out and the soldiers thought he was dead before they torched the place. He jumped out the window and started running with his flesh falling off. He had an amazing story, not because he won dozens of marathons (he only won two small ones) but simply because he was finishing in the top ten despite ruined leg with multiple of skin grafts, a damaged spine from a machete hack and other problems. (i cant' remmeber his name though)
Watched this movie today and it was matter of factly brutal. It was amazing that people in a minority group could rise up and kill so many in such a short time frame. They said that less than 24 hours after the command ("cut down the tall trees") had been given to signal the start of the massacre, they pulled over 40,000 corpses out of one lake. How the fuck you march 40,000 people to the lake and kill them?
Also, I didnt' understand why the Tutsi rebels did not react swiftly. They were better armed, machine guns and grenades against machetes. Also, there were more rebels than Hutus so it should have been squashed really quick.
I guess the Hutus caught them by surprise, but they started the massacre in the middle of the night against civilians.
On a side note, not related to this movie... I remember reading the story in Readers Digest of a top level marathon runner who was from Rwanda and survived the massacre. He was actually in school when his classmates turned on him and started butchering all the Titsu people. The soldiers came and then burned the school to the ground. He survived by jumping out the window. He tried to kill himself first by jumping off a desk and then stairs and deliberately landing on his head. He only knocked himself out and the soldiers thought he was dead before they torched the place. He jumped out the window and started running with his flesh falling off. He had an amazing story, not because he won dozens of marathons (he only won two small ones) but simply because he was finishing in the top ten despite ruined leg with multiple of skin grafts, a damaged spine from a machete hack and other problems. (i cant' remmeber his name though)
