I just finished watching this documentary (see title above). It was probably the most comprehensive all-rounder explanatory documentary that I've seen so far on the genocide in Rwanda. There were so many themes to what had happened that I never really got from some other documentaries - mostly on the functions of the media and the Red Cross.
A lot of people nowadays like to describe the war in Iraq as a war that played and exploited (and still does exploit) the media. I believe now that this exploitation did not begin with Iraq - I think it existed in Rwanda too. They explain it very clearly when the Red Cross publicized the murders of 6 people in their watch in order to to force the extremists to feel (embarassed by?) the attention of the international community - ..which in the end played for the Red Cross and helped them save more people.
Another journalist was forced to keep shut about the actions of a Senegalese UN Captain that saved a lot of people, because the Captain's life could've been forced to forfeit. He was murdered anyway in the end.
Look up Stockholm syndrome, Milgram experiment and Stanford prison experiment on wiki. Just, something to read about s'all.
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