The movie I watched was Hotel Rwanda. This movie covered the genocide that occurred in Africa between April and July Of 1994 when two tribes began fighting. These two tribes were the Hut and the Tutsis. In just a little over three months, 800,000 people were murdered. In the beginning of the movie, a man explains why this holocaust occurred. This is what he stated; “When people ask me, good listeners, why do I hate all the Tutsis, say, read our history. The Tutsis were collaborators for the Belgian colonists.
They stole our Hut land. They whipped us. Now, they have come back, these Tutsis rebels. They are cockroaches. They are murderers. Rwanda is our Hut land. We are majority. They are a minority of traitors and invaders. We will squash their infestation. We will wipe out the RPR rebels. This is RTFM Hut power radio. Stay alert. Watch your neighbors” (Hotel Rwanda). The radical Hut felt that if they eliminated all the Tutsis, their race would gain all control. The Hut were relentless With their treatment of those they felt would hinder their success.
They even killed some people from their own tribe, simply because they did not agree with what was happening. As the book states, “Evil inflicts pain and suffering, deprives innocent people their humanity, and creates feelings of hopelessness and despair. ” (p. 119) This was definitely the case regarding what happened in Kigali, Africa in 1994. During the movie, a news crew member had asked one of the men what is the difference between Hut and Tutsis. The gentlemen explained that according to the Belgian colonists, Tutsis had smaller noses, their skin was not as dark, and were taller, which made them more exquisite as compared to the Hut. Belgians placed Tutsis in control of many things while they overtook the area. This man also explained that when the Belgians left the country and took with them many of the Tutsis, they left Hut in power, and the Hut then took revenge on the Tutsis who returned to the country, for the years of oppression they suffered under Belligerent’s control. Paul Resignation was the manager at the Hotel Des Mille Isoclines in Rwanda. Paul is Hut, but his wife is Tutsis. Paul was very affluent and had used all of his influence to gain some retention for himself, his family and friends, and those seeking refuge at the hotel.
The supplies at the hotel were running low, so Paul went to the Hut leader with whom he always purchased needed items, and when Paul and his assistant were leaving, the Hut leader told him to return to the Hotel by way of the river. There was fog and they could not see very far ahead of them. They began running over something and thought they had run off the road. They stopped, and when Paul got out of the Van, he fell on a pile of bodies. The Hut had murdered hundreds of people along the road.
In conclusion, according to Johnson under Evil as Deception, “evil people refuse to submit and try to control others instead. They consider themselves above reproach and project their shortcomings, attacking anyone who threatens their self- concepts” (p. 121). The Hut leader definitely exhibited the evil that predominates in some individuals. He and his rebels attacked and murdered individuals simply because they felt they were superior to the Tutsis and that they were the ones who should have been in control. The Hut leader also exhibited his evil as a dreadful pleasure.
According to C. F-red Alfred, “people experience evil as a deep sense of 4 uneasiness, ‘the dread of being human, vulnerable, alone in the universe and doomed to die” (p. 121). The Hut leader felt that his world was being turned upside down and felt uneasy and vulnerable because of the Tutsis, and he was determined to gain control at any cost. Aren’t states that even though we would like to think that evil is carried out by disturbed psychopaths, it is often the case that they appear quite normal and that evil is more common than something unusual or enigmatic (up. 4 – 125). The Rwanda genocide bears witness to Aren’t thesis as well, in that the Hut leader appeared quite normal; even carrying out business with the Tutsis before he went off the deep end.
