Hotel Rwanda... Chew On This!
I watched the movie Hotel Rwanda tonight and it drained my last energy. (The first time I cried in the theatre.) This time, As I was watching I thought to myself. Man, we need to Brainstorm this... Why, How did this happen? Unity could have saved this.
"The French army was deeply involved in Hutu preparations for mass murder. French soldiers trained Hutu Power militias and Habyarimana's own Presidential Guard. Mitterrand tripled financial aid to the country which the Habyarimana regime funneled into private accounts and used to purchase more arms and fuel their elite lifestyle. The Rwandan army increased from 5000 to 28,000 fully equipped soldiers. During 1991-92, France spent $6 million on arms donations to Rwanda (including mortars, light artillery, armored cars and helicopters). In 1993 - the year before the genocide - it spent $4 million in precisely the same way. (France was also a benefactor of Zaire, which means that Mitterrand, among others, is responsible for arming the current war in Congo.) By the time Hutu Power hatred was unleashed this pathologically racist State (whose whole existence now revolved around the Holocaust it was about to perpetrate) had been armed to the teeth - at the expense of French tax-payers!"
But the best part is how Clinton denied that this genocide even existed. Put that in your ballot and smoke it!
OBAMA 2008, you suckaz!
"In 1994, the US denied the existence of the Rwandan genocide and offered their own formulation instead: "acts of genocide may have occurred" (Clinton parlance). A journalist shot back with the question: how many "acts of genocide" does it take to make a genocide?"
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About Me
- Uchiwali Tha ExtraTerrestrial
- aka Ogechi began hand-painting abstract designs on fabric in her childhood with her grandmother, Geraldyne Hill using craft fabric paint squeeze bottles. During her freshman in high school she was introduced to a xerox/acrylic image transfer method by the painter Lynn Marshall Linnemeyer. From this initiation she moved through the paint media over the years from stencil, spray paint, silk-screen finally to directly painting designs and text on-to the fabric with acrylic paint. Ogechi's has experimented with surfaces ranging from cardboard and wood, to Mylar and photographs for her paintings and drawings. As a graduate student, her work drew the attention from Marlboro Gallery in NYC. Returning to the early playfulness of with the usage of craft paint squeeze bottles was a liberating process for Ogechi. It was here that she fused all of the sophisticated techniques in acrylic and she acquired through years of practice.
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There is a powerful photo exhibit at the Skirball Museum that shows the whole tragedy in Darfur, Chad, and the Sudan. I highly recommend you check it out!!!
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