> Play: on being a good boy....

My goodness! How can this be! How can this silly computer erase all the things I just wrote! If I wasn't so gangster I'd cry :-) Anyway I guess there is nothing else to do but start over. Maybe the ideas will flow better this time.
I finished watching Hotel Rwanda yesterday, that’s a wonderful movie. I mean its simply amazing, I have to get the DVD and you should too! It’s been so long since I watched a movie with meaning and a message.
For all who don't know ( I have learned not to assume common knowledge since I came to this continent of America, Rwanda is a country near the east coast of Africa where over 800,000 people where killed in a genocide that lasted 100 days. The world closed its eyes and ears and refused to call what was going on genocide until it was too late. The war was between the two major Rwandese tribes, the HUTU and the TUTSI. The movie is about on courageous hotel Manager, Mr. Paul Rusasabangina who was able shelter over 1200 people from the massacre. It’s a beautiful tale of love and courage under fire.

I had the opportunity to watch the real Mr. Rusasabangina give a narration of his ordeal just last week. It was truly amazing. He came to UT Austin and im glad I went.

I will not tire to reiterate that the same thing that happened in Rwanda is now taking place in the Darfur Region of Western Sudan. 10,000 people are dying every month and the United Nations has abdicated its duty and responsibility by delegating the task of deciding whether to call the situation in Darfur genocide to an external body.( The government of the Sudan is sponsoring a militia called the janjaweed to systematically wipe out all “non Arabs” in the area)

What bugs me the most is that almost everyone that I have spoken to here at the university, has no clue of what is going on. Isn’t it amazing that almost anyone who cares to read a newspaper or watch TV in Kenya knows of and has seen people feverishly protesting for the preservation of Terry Schiavo's life yet these people don’t know about the mass murder of 10s of thousands that is taking place in Africa? Are these lives worth less than Mrs. Schiavos’? Why won't anyone protest for them, stand up for them... at least write a letter to their congress man for them? Ruminate on that...


A riveting story of courage