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My paper is about what I learn about the film that we had watch about the Tutsi and the Hutu conflict that they were having towards each other and the power they wanted to have for one another. What I felt words the video was hurt and angrier towards the people that knew what was happening but didn’t want to help. In one of the interviews Clinton said” The US had just pulled American troops out of a disastrous peacekeeping mission in Somalia – later made famous in the book "Black Hawk Down" – the year before. It had vowed never to return to a conflict it couldn't understand, between clans and tribes it didn't know, in a country where the US had no national interests (Baldur). I think that they were not interested because they had nothing good giving back to them. There was one scene that I remember when the reporter Fergal Keane went into the church and saw all the dead bodies and as they went into the church they heard a noise and the soldiers told the reporter” those are just the rats (soldier in the video). The reporter thought it was rats like the little animals, but the soldier was talking about the Tutsis. In the part of the video, the radio called all the Tutsis rats and that they should be killed. This whole thing about who has power or should get is dump. It’s causing so many deaths from both sides and there will never be peace if it just …show more content…
The government from America could've gone to the country and try to make a peace offering for the Tutsi and the Hutu. They can have the place secured so no one with guns or weapons can come in. No one would be harmed or killed. The American government later on also can get help from the government of Rwanda. There would be peace of both countries and America would not look like assholes that only care for themselves. If the American government was helping then they could have save more

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