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When the World Turns it Back to Humanity




I've just watched one of the most terrifying documentaries so far.. Ghosts of Rwanda, a 2004 year production by PBS to recount the 100-days terror of Rwandan Genocide in 1994. Once could argue how the numbers of people being massacred was far more less than the Holocaust or the genocide by the Khmer regime. But the truth is within the 100 days, humanity literally torn apart by our selfishness, and most leaders in the world are just ignoring the true fact of evil.

While it does not recount the events preceding to the genocide, the documentary capture the whole genocide and how the community of the world reacts to it... simply by DOING NOTHING. Sadly, even UN pulled out the humanity aid and peacekeepers and only a few were left to save the helpless Tutsis. One of the most grueling image that I saw was the scene that was captured at a church. Thousands of corpse were piled up against the wall of the church and below the statue of Jesus Christ opening up his hands looking down at a single corpse lying on the cold cemented floor. What an irony it is.

While this part of the world were turn to hell in days and not a single nation willing to send their troops to stop the nightmare. Instead, the whole world was witnessing a genocide in working. Reasons being that they do not have interest in Rwanda to actually send their troops there. What on earth does that mean, are economy "interest" much more important than human lives?? Has human dignity degraded to the extend that it's OK to see someone being bludgeon to death by their own friends and neighbors? The saddest thing of the whole situation is us, human beings, who literally left these innocent people to die.

Another scene shows that the peacekeepers were sent to a hospital to save a white lady. Thousands of Tutsis gathered and asked for help but the soldiers however did not respond. One lady explained to the journalists what is happening there, and how they were attacked and killed by the militia. Yet with this coverage which was broadcast to the whole world, all leaders did nothing.

How scary we are to even let this happened again after the Holocaust and the genocide in Cambodia. Aren't we had enough lessons to actually stopped this madness? Even now, racial discrimination and hatred are still roaming across the globe. One could wonder, how different it is to be a black skinned or a white skinned or having different beliefs? Under the skin, we are all sharing the same genes that make us humans. No one can claim that they are more superior than the others and thus, all humans are equal. Yet, why do we still kill each other because of these difference? To me, this is a horrifying reality that happens in our so called modern world. May God bless humanity.

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