Hotel Rwanda blog Assignment

"According to the sources and the film, how did individuals, groups of people and the world community fail the people of Rwanda?"

In the movie when the guests called their friends and relatives, only about one fourth replied and helped. Gregoire, who worked at the hotel, betrayed Paul and the others by telling the Hutu that the UN were helping some Tutsis to get out of the country. And General Bizimungu only wanted to help if he got something in return, and in a way he failed the people of Rwanda, because he was Rwandian and didn't want to help unless he got something out of it. And when the presidetn was killed, people thought that it was tutsi rebells, but it turned out to be Hutus.

And from source B and from the movie, the Europeans (or the "whites" as they were called) left Rwanda in the middle of the massacre.

The main visual elements are of Africa, completely black, and a very big footprint covering the whole of Africa.

This political cartoon is probably about how Africa was colonized, and that it didn't do any good, since Africa is black, "in the dark".

The cartoonist maybe wanted to say that imperialism was a "dark" time for Africa. A bad thing.

Well, Africa is coloured all in black, as if it was in the dark, and the footprint looks kind of threatening. I think it's European, because it's a footprint of a shoe, the Africans at the time probably didn't even have shoes!

Maybe the cartoonist could have had some red between the cracks in the footprint, to show that people died, and that it was a very bad time.