Some documentaries try too hard to find a balance and spread the guilt around. This is one such documentary. Rare as it is, the Rwandan Genocide was a very one-sided event with victims and perpetrators clearly defined. That's why it's called A Genocide!
Even worse - this movie is giving credibility to madman's logic, and here is how: The main claim of the movie is that Kagame and RPF should be held responsible for Rwandan genocide, because it was them who downed the plane with Rwandan President, and by doing so they enraged their enemies, and Hutus all together, into committing the genocide
But following that logic there could never be any real responsibility - and the only conclusion would be that everyone is guilty of everything. Because the perpetrator can always point his finger at someone who has done him wrong and with whom the victim has some connection. This is the logic of the madman, but the madman does not need a justifiable cause to pursue his lunacy. If it hadn't been for the downed plane it would have been something else. Like corruption of fertile soil by demonic Tutsi, or how about the real reasons: Hutu Power and grab for land and power by unscrupulous regime?
The fact of the matter is that the genocide had been planed and exercised long ago before that plane crash. But does that even matter? How can an assassination of one totalitarian president be excuse for illegal killing of hundreds of thousands who have nothing to do with the assassination? And why would anyone try to lift any or all responsibility from genocide perpetrators by giving them excuse as laughable as this?
And then have the nerve to call THAT - THE UNTOLD STORY?
Also, the movie tries to create another controversy by emphasizing experts findings that killings had started and finished BEFORE RPF reached those places. Yet in no way does that negate the fact that RPF and Kagame stopped the genocide, or at the very least brought the end to murderous regime and gave some kind of order to those places. The movie has weird premise that genocidal Hutu regime had been unaware of RPF movement. So murderers should have waited for advancing RPF, and they should have been busy with their genocidal activities at the day that RPF moved in that area - only that would be a real proof of RPF stopping the genocide!
How about more realistic thinking? You know - murderous thugs with machetes dispersing long before advancing, well organized military force has any chance of catching up with them?
Second half of the movie which gives somewhat different account about RPF and Kagame's action after they took over is important and well done. But this gets overshadowed by main and chronologically preceding movie points which are simply laughable.
Even worse - this movie is giving credibility to madman's logic, and here is how: The main claim of the movie is that Kagame and RPF should be held responsible for Rwandan genocide, because it was them who downed the plane with Rwandan President, and by doing so they enraged their enemies, and Hutus all together, into committing the genocide
But following that logic there could never be any real responsibility - and the only conclusion would be that everyone is guilty of everything. Because the perpetrator can always point his finger at someone who has done him wrong and with whom the victim has some connection. This is the logic of the madman, but the madman does not need a justifiable cause to pursue his lunacy. If it hadn't been for the downed plane it would have been something else. Like corruption of fertile soil by demonic Tutsi, or how about the real reasons: Hutu Power and grab for land and power by unscrupulous regime?
The fact of the matter is that the genocide had been planed and exercised long ago before that plane crash. But does that even matter? How can an assassination of one totalitarian president be excuse for illegal killing of hundreds of thousands who have nothing to do with the assassination? And why would anyone try to lift any or all responsibility from genocide perpetrators by giving them excuse as laughable as this?
And then have the nerve to call THAT - THE UNTOLD STORY?
Also, the movie tries to create another controversy by emphasizing experts findings that killings had started and finished BEFORE RPF reached those places. Yet in no way does that negate the fact that RPF and Kagame stopped the genocide, or at the very least brought the end to murderous regime and gave some kind of order to those places. The movie has weird premise that genocidal Hutu regime had been unaware of RPF movement. So murderers should have waited for advancing RPF, and they should have been busy with their genocidal activities at the day that RPF moved in that area - only that would be a real proof of RPF stopping the genocide!
How about more realistic thinking? You know - murderous thugs with machetes dispersing long before advancing, well organized military force has any chance of catching up with them?
Second half of the movie which gives somewhat different account about RPF and Kagame's action after they took over is important and well done. But this gets overshadowed by main and chronologically preceding movie points which are simply laughable.
