What about you, in 1994, should you also remember something?
Shake Hands with the Devil is a movie that I would recommend to everyone, if only to let people know that these things exist: How did the majestic scenery that flows with African music at the beginning of the movie become that hell?
What happened in Rwanda is shocking enough in itself. If the death toll in the Nanjing Massacre was 300,000, then the Rwanda Massacre was 800,000 to 1 million, or one-eighth of the country's population. But the more lingering thought is that such a scene happened so close, even if they wanted to forget, they simply couldn't. In your memory, the year when demons danced wildly, blood was everywhere, and the river was full of corpses, and today it's only been less than 20 years, what does this mean?
Today, however, when they hope to rebuild a beautiful country in this traumatized land, they have once again chosen the Western-style development model. How helpless and ironic. Don't they know that those Westerners are the real demons? I think they understand very well that Belgium came to this colony and forcibly divided the aborigines into two races to make it easier for them to manage, and when the racial hatred they caused with their own hands turned into genocide, they slapped their ass and left. . Of course, there are also those Western countries that represent the most powerful forces in the world. Isn't it all about money? Aren't the systems, governments, people, and human rights of these countries just pawns of the capitalists? When the civil war in Rwanda was drawing to a close, the French said they wanted to intervene, and General Dallaire said to their ambassador:
"- Do you really think your government planned this operation for humanitarian reasons?
- Of course.
- Shit! The French are intervening to save their clients, because they are going to lose and run. If the French had arrived in time, they might have saved a few inches of land and could claim to be the government of Rwanda. The first people the French rescued were those who planned the massacre, and I watched them get on the plane to Paris. France sold them weapons, France helped them train the presidential guard, and France let it go for 72 days to exterminate the moderates of the Tutsi and Hutu. Is this what you think of as humanitarian action, Dr. Kouchner? General
Dallaire negotiated with the leaders of the Interahamwe with blood on their cuffs, shaking their hands despite their disgust. If this scene is just a symbolic point, then the evasive Western world is truly working with the devil. And now, why did this country sacked by demons choose to join capitalism with blood on its hands again? Of course, they seem to have no choice, and they will never join the big socialist family. But even so, it is not necessary to let The mountain is covered with skyscrapers, showing off the wealth of capitalists while being exploited in the world financial system. Just copy a city model of a developed country, and put a row of glass curtain walls with a strong commercial flavor on your beautiful rolling hills. is the simplest and most beautiful thing, but it only creates more inequality, more people lose their lands, their jobs, and the social ties they once depended on. You've been through it once: embraced colonization Everything they brought, their religion, their language, their culture, were abandoned by them. You shouldn't want to do it again.
So what really matters? In such a country with high population density, small territory, inconvenient transportation, and difficulty in self-sufficiency, isn't the most worthy of care not the land? Isn't the cultural landscape created by thousands of years of agricultural traditions the most proud? Recuperate, let your lands feed your people, and be independent from aid, benevolent or ulterior - if you don't, you'll have to repeat the fate of the West in the face of the West. Why not, tell them how to build their own house with accessible materials and methods, how to get along with nature, how to live poor but happy and dignified, how to use time to slowly weave their land, accumulate wealth and culture from it, continue Those labors that have lasted for centuries, interrupted by the colonizers, but not completely forgotten. Banana trees, farmland, hills and rivers, they do not contradict the words "modern" and "development".
This place reminds me of my own country, maybe because of the same history, landscape, colonization, scourge of war, development, population. Some I've only heard from history, some I'm witnessing. Now their president, Paul Kagame, is running his country with a centralized approach, and I nod. But once you get involved in the world system, you can't help but lose your things. So just like I hope my country doesn't let its culture degenerate into a commodity and its morality becomes a vassal of capital, I also hope that Rwanda can find its own way. Compared with us who can only do one project, our teacher Toma in Rwanda helps develop architecture schools and spreads the concept of regionalism, which is much more important. Because knowledge and the earth are like the sun and the moon, together they are light.
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