Hotel Rwanda

Hotel Rwanda

It was an early morning drive back to Kagali. When we got into town, Moses dropped us off at the Genocide Memorial. Many years ago the Tutsis ruled Rwanda. The Hutus were the second class citizens, as time progressed the Hutus took control and the Tutsis took a back seat. Then in 1994 someone shot down the plane that the Hutu president was in triggering one of the worst genocides in the history of man.

You would think after the holocaust the world would have learned a lesson. The world sat back and watched as Hitler killed almost 20 million people and later we wondered why the rest of the world waited so long to act. The US only entered WWII after Pearl Harbor, the holocaust was well underway.

Pol Pot did the same thing in Cambodia and the world watched then again we watched as neighbor turned on neighbor in Rwanda, raping and hacking people to death with machetes and we all turned a blind eye. Now the killing field is in Somalia. Will we ever learn?

After an emotional time at the Genocide Museum, Moses took us to the real Hotel Rwanda, the real name of the hotel is Hotel Des Mille Collines. We sat and had a drink on the same veranda that turned into a safe haven during the killing maylee of the Hutu uprising.

It's funny how people can kill each other with total abandon and 14 short years later the same people are getting along as if nothing ever happened.