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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