What is needed in the face of massacres?

Kiley 2022-03-21 09:03:07

The film strongly expresses the dissatisfaction with the withdrawal of the UN troops and the powerlessness of the priest and God. I feel biased. The nature of the UN peacekeeping forces determines that they cannot interfere in the internal affairs of other countries and participate in the suppression of rioters. Their withdrawal is only out of frustration. After all, politics is complicated, and the politics involving many countries are even more complicated.
I have a feeling, however, that when we see this inhumane massacre, what can we find other than grief, anger, and powerlessness? What do the Tutsi need? Not a UN peacekeeping force! Not God! What they need is a revolutionary! When the lives of everyone in the entire race are lost, what they need is resistance! It's a revolution! instead of pseudo-peace!
800,000 people were killed in this massacre! And they are mainly facing some mob! It would be especially clear what the outcome would have been if some of these people could stand up and organize the Tutsi people against the atrocities. A nation that does not know how to resist is pathetic, and a nation that relies on outside help will never achieve true peace. Peace, in your own hands!

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Shooting Dogs quotes

  • Christopher: I'll see to that after Mass.

    Joe Connor: Mass?

    Christopher: I'm a priest in a Catholic country, Joe. This is what I do.

    Joe Connor: Yeah, sure. But do you think it is the best time for that?

    Christopher: In times of stress, people need to commune with God.

    Joe Connor: I think maybe they'd prefer some food, water, a spot of reassurance.

    Christopher: Well, come to Mass-get all three on the same ticket.

  • Marie: Does God love everyone? Does he even love those men on the road outside?

    Christopher: God doesn't always like everything we do. That's our choice. But he loves all his children.