Why Is Hotel Rwanda Still Useful?
When the teacher turn off the light, the projection went on, a gloomy announcement of the Hutu radio station haunts in the classroom. Hotel Rwanda is starting. It was this movie totally changed my opinion on the International Law and International Criminal Court (ICC).
I used not to be very passionate about International Law. Instead, the flag of human rights protection, from my previous perspective, was only a proliferation of western ideals and it’s terribly hard to impartially apply them everywhere. After I read Eric Posner’s Twilight of Human Rights Law, it seemed that the ostensibly scintilating international law is useless, given the growing crimes against humanity and the ICC is meeting a deadlock without military enforcement. Are they really useful? …show more content…
The Hutu and Tutsi seems to shake hands for peace in Rwanda with the aid of the United Nations. However, after the Hutu president’s airplane was striken, a staggering genocide began where people live in the same country killed their fellow citizens by machete. The kind hotel manager, Paul, decided to protect the Tutsi refugees in the hotel. Because of the assistance of the Belgian boss, the hotel became the only safe place. Outside,though, is countless dead Tutsis corpses, children, women, men, on the road, in the river, in the garden, everywhere.
Moreover, the reactions of the western powerful countries broke my heart. None was willing to provide help because there was no benefit for the election campaign. The United Nations peacekeepers were forbidden to shoot, faced with the harsh conditions. Paul saw the hope when the Belgian soldiers came. Yet they were there only for evacuating the foreigners. No consistent military assistance, no sufficient media coverage, no refugees evacuation. Eventually, darkness came upon 800,000 people’s eyes within 100 days in
I used not to be very passionate about International Law. Instead, the flag of human rights protection, from my previous perspective, was only a proliferation of western ideals and it’s terribly hard to impartially apply them everywhere. After I read Eric Posner’s Twilight of Human Rights Law, it seemed that the ostensibly scintilating international law is useless, given the growing crimes against humanity and the ICC is meeting a deadlock without military enforcement. Are they really useful? …show more content…
The Hutu and Tutsi seems to shake hands for peace in Rwanda with the aid of the United Nations. However, after the Hutu president’s airplane was striken, a staggering genocide began where people live in the same country killed their fellow citizens by machete. The kind hotel manager, Paul, decided to protect the Tutsi refugees in the hotel. Because of the assistance of the Belgian boss, the hotel became the only safe place. Outside,though, is countless dead Tutsis corpses, children, women, men, on the road, in the river, in the garden, everywhere.
Moreover, the reactions of the western powerful countries broke my heart. None was willing to provide help because there was no benefit for the election campaign. The United Nations peacekeepers were forbidden to shoot, faced with the harsh conditions. Paul saw the hope when the Belgian soldiers came. Yet they were there only for evacuating the foreigners. No consistent military assistance, no sufficient media coverage, no refugees evacuation. Eventually, darkness came upon 800,000 people’s eyes within 100 days in