MANNAM CULTURE _ Hotel Rwanda

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This blog will save my memory with MANNAM.

As one of MANNAM members (MANNAMERs), I will post about my life with MANNAM.

 

Do you know the movie ‘Hotel Rwanda’?

  Few years ago, I couldn’t remember exact time, I took a class named ‘understanding of the English speaking world Literature and Culture’. It means, not about England or America but about the countries which are using English as a main language. Africa, the Caribbean, India, Oceania, Canada, Ireland can be the English speaking world. Among those countries, the first chapter was about Africa and I’ve got interest in that country. There are many novels and movies. My professor gave me a homework. That homework was to watch the movie ‘Hotel Rwanda’ and write a paper. By any chance, I’ve got to watch the ‘Hotel Rwanda’, and it was really touching.

 

  The story is about the civil war of Rwanda. There are two big tribes, Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda. Two tribes have been in bad relationship with each other and as the president is assassinated, the situation is getting worse. Hutu tries to kill every Tutsi even the baby. In that situation, Paul (the main character) tries to help and hide as many Tutsi people as possible. All the worlds turn their faces away from the Rwanda. UN also can’t help them. Only Paul, as the manager of a hotel, he hides many Tutsi people in his hotel.

He could save 1268 Tutsi people. However during this civil war, about 1 million people died.

 

  This movie was directed based on a true story like ‘Schindler’s List’. So it is more miserable. The Rwanda civil war was not that old history. In 1994, there was a war in Rwanda. After 10 years later, this was made into the movie. When I was 5 years old and lived happily with my family, in Rwanda, there were people suffer from terrible war.

 

  Why these things happen? Why the war is still going on? Why people suffer from the war?

  Everybody wants peace. People don’t want war, conflicts and fights. To make world peaceful, what can we do? To against the war like civil war of Rwanda, what can we do?

 

  We have to find a possible way. If we think peace is impossible and stop moving, then we would be stopped forever. The thoughts that it is not possible really make it impossible. The power of thinking is really strong. In the best seller book ‘Secret’, the author says to us that think and imagine deeply. It will affect other environment (kind of energy) and it will make it to work. If it is just a lie, the book could not be the best seller. Believe! and don’t stop there, Act! One action is more powerful than 100 thoughts. I’ve participated in MANNAM because it is the biggest and the most realistic action that I can take. In the MANNAM, I can dare dream the world peace.

 

 Join us, and make better place all together.  :)