Though it is set a world away in Sierra Leone, the movie Blood Diamond still cannot resist the Hollywood ending. The last scene in the film shows Djimon Hounsou’s character Solomon sitting in front of some sort of international assembly, waiting to give a speech. As he sits, he glances at the story in an ...
Grab the tissues before you watch any of the movies on the “Top Movies that Make You Cry” list. There are some real heartbreakers on the list, but all of the movies were selected for that very reason. Everyone needs a good cry once in awhile, so cozy up on the couch and choose one ...
The Rwandan genocide of 1994 wasn’t an isolated event. It was the most horrific in a string of mass murders perpetrated by the Hutu against the Tutsi, and vice versa, since 1962, when Belgium granted independence to Rwanda and Burundi, two neighboring nations in Africa’s Great Lakes region. Who’s a Hutu, Who’s a Tutsi? Together, ...
“The UK the US the whole world decided to abandon a whole nation to thugs, to thieves, to killers, to gangsters…..without any witness from the international communities Rwandans took machetes and started to butcher each other for 100 days without any witness. On April 15th a week after the genocide started I saw the last ...
