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Sunday, March 13, 2005

Survivors and killers of genocide watch movie

Director Raoul Peck showed his Rwanda genocide HBO movie, "Sometimes in April" (US showing March 19), in Kigali to 25,000 Rwandans. Reactions: 'Some attendees seemed to think the film had succeeded too well in its realism and moral complexity. (Even a Hutu hate propagandist is ultimately sympathetic.) "People are angry," explained a man named Innocent, a former soldier in the Tutsi rebel army that finally halted the slaughter. He had just rescued a teenage girl, a stranger, who had collapsed on the street. "I did not want to see this movie - no, no, no," he said, shaking a trembling finger. "People don't need to be reminded. They don't want to be reminded."
"What do people want?" I asked.
"A moral, a lesson - something that will show us how to live together." Report here.

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