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Destini Willis
4/15/14
APLANG
Period 4
In the documentary "Ghosts of Rwanda"(2004), writer, producer, and director, George Baker, argues the social, political, and diplomatic failures that allowed the massacre of thousands of Rwandans to occur in Africa. He develops this idea by illuminating the U.S' neglect for intervention into the genocide and the UN's struggle to save lives without the adequate help from others. Using testimonies from survivors, video clips, and accounts from assistants to the President, Baker shows the extremities of the genocide in order to sway the audience to feel like the U.S should have been more effective in trying to help.
The targeted audience is the American people who maybe unaware of America's role in the genocide of Rwanda
The narrator stated the UN reported 300,000 Rwandas had been killed. Prudence Bushnell talked to Tutsi leader and he stated " Madam they're killing people." The UN general was saying himself "Bring more troops." A young girl gave her story of getting her fingers cut off and her head cut while also losing her family
There were numerous graphic pictures of naked bodies that had been beaten in the clinic. There were video clips of dead bodies piled upon the side of the road. There was a video clip of a Tutsi hand floating in the water because they were drowned. The Hutus were just standing around talking as if nothing happened.
The overrall messgage being told is the tragedy that was happening in Rwanda while the American government sat and watched. Thousands of Tutsis were being killed by people of their own nation. The UN did their best to try and help save lives but were restricted due to the non intervention policy of the U.S. The U.S never apologized. If they would have helped, thousands of lives could have been saved