I worked that the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, in 2001-2002, and thus have formed a very strong bond/attachment to the events that took place during the genocide. Last year the talk was all about Hotel Rwanda which was a brilliant movie-and even more exciting for me since I worked on that case while in Tanzania which is where the tribunal is placed. Now there is a new movie out, and it looks even better then Hotel Rwanda-if that is possible. I saw the trailer for Shooting Dogs, and can't wait for it either to hit the cinema here in Amman-I hope that will happen-or for me to head downtown and get a copy.
The images and the stuff I read while working as a legal assistant to one of judges in the tribunal was truly mindblowing, to see and hear about people being macheted to death is the worst thing I have ever heard. Somehow it seems more violent then shooting someone, since you don't need to have direct physical contact with a person to shoot, bas to stand over them and hit them with a machete, I don't think I have ever felt that kind of hatred. I was using Larium at the point-anti-malaria medicine-and on my Larium nights, when I would have stayed up late reading a witness testimony that needed to be summarised for my judge, I would end up having the worst dreams. Watching my parents getting macheted while I was hidden under a chair or in a cupboard, it was the Israeli in the case of my parents, bas still it was very traumatising.
Go see the trailer, read the article and inshallah we will get to see it at the cinema, and maybe we'll learn from mistakes we humans have done to each other.
Haven't heard of this film, but Hotel Rwanda was terrific. I would certainly watch Shooting Dogs-hope too that it would hit theaters in Amman. I am sure it was one hell of an experience for you in Tanzania and to experience such violent images. Need to encourage humans to stop the violence.
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