"Sometimes in April" movie shows why we should leave Rwanda in peace

[MK254]

I've stayed late into the night watching the movie "Sometimes in April", I can say it's a heartbreaking tearjerker kind of a movie. And it only depicts the massacre from the eyes of one family. One can only imagine every other horror from hundreds of thousands families that saw worse.

It's just too emotional, even watching it to the end is quite an effort. And more heartwrenching to watch the complicity of the French, the failure of the UN to support its mission, and the failure of the West to intervene.

Anyway, the reason for me to bring this up is that, I've watched with great concern some reckless, insensitive, cold, unaffectionate and detached members of JF trying so tirelessly to re-write the story of Rwanda tragedy. They probably have their own reasons, they could be remnants of the killers, or some citizens who failed out with Kagame. And some are probably not even Rwandese, but one thing I would like to beg, please lets leave this country alone.

Lets just allow them to rebuild their nation and have them attempt to wipe away memories of the genocide. Until you're slapped into reality after watching such a movie, you can't know much. Total madness in the name of a society.

I admire the efforts of Rwanda people, they've come out together and working so hard. The fact that Rwanda tops the whole of East Africa as the best governed country, tells a volume. They emerged the best in performance in the 2014 Mo Ibrahim Index of African Governance.

Come on good people, lets leave Rwanda alone and in peace. We failed as the world, we watched the massacre swallow them and did nothing, it's only fair if we don't stoke the emotions again.

 

[The Businessman]

Moja Kati Ya Movie Ambayo Haichoshi Na Kusikitisha.

 

[Kiyoya]

siku zote movie zina element ya finction

 

[MK254]

siku zote movie zina element ya finction

Movie haziwezi elezea ukweli wote maana ina lifetime ya masaa mawili, wakati ukatili wenyewe ulitendeka kila siku kwa muda. Halafu hii inaelezea picha kwa jicho la familia moja tu na tayari inagofya ajabu.

 

[jMali]

Sometimes in April is purely a work of fiction. Hao wahusika/characters na plot nzima ni ya kutunga tu. On the other hand Hotel Rwanda is based on a true story, the hotel is real mpaka leo hii ipo, character ya starring ni real mpaka leo yupo (paul rusesabagina), na story nzima is based on real events ambazo ni kweli zilitokea in real life.

When it comes to the Rwandan genocide i'd rather stick to Hotel Rwanda than some work of fiction.

 

[MK254]

Sometimes in April is purely a work of fiction. Hao wahusika/characters na plot nzima ni ya kutunga tu. On the other hand Hotel Rwanda is based on a true story, the hotel is real mpaka leo hii ipo, character ya starring ni real mpaka leo yupo (paul rusesabagina), na story nzima is based on real events ambazo ni kweli zilitokea in real life.

When it comes to the Rwandan genocide i'd rather stick to Hotel Rwanda than some work of fiction.

Read the article below, especially the highlighted in red
'Sometimes in April' looks at Rwandan genocide - today > entertainment - today > entertainment > tv - TODAY.com

Cast, crew detail personal experiences
The movie's set is a half-mile away from where skeletal remains of 250,000 victims are buried in tombs and exhibited in glass cases. To create authentic scenes, genocide survivors working as cast and crew detailed their personal experiences.
"Sometime we go somewhere and somebody just says ‘Yes, I was hiding for two months behind this house' or ‘My uncle died a street from there,"' said Peck, who also directed "Lumumba," the 2000 film about Congo's assassinated Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. "It is just a daily occurrence."

Hbo Films / AP​

"Sometimes in April the rains come in Rwanda," said Sam Martin, the HBO executive in charge of production, citing the film's title, a Rwandan saying recalling the blessings of rain.But April of 1994 brought genocide. Victims were chased into churches, maize fields, banana plantations and swamps and hacked to death by machete-wielding neighbors, soldiers and militiamen.
A team of psychologists is on the set to help genocide survivors deal with trauma that may be triggered by graphic reminders of the past.
In one incident, the special-effects crew scattered fake cadavers in a swamp outside the capital of Kigali that had been a killing ground and hiding place for Tutsis.
The scene was too real for a village woman who wandered to the set and saw more than a dozen silicone corpses. She screamed and sobbed, overcoming the shock only with a psychologist's help.

 

[jMali]

lawmaina78

I've read it, thanks for supporting my argument that the movie is indeed a work of fiction.

 

[murutongore]

jMali

You never cease to amaze me.

 

[MK254]

I've read it, thanks for supporting my argument that the movie is indeed a work of fiction.

Man you're bloody cold...
Anyway, why can't you people just move on, whatever they did to you or anyone else during the massacre, can't be paid for, but you need to forgive and help in building the nation.

 

[Commanche]

lawmaina78

Kudos dude for spitting game. Umeongea pointi tupu. Usishangae genocidaire wakija hapa to discredit the movie na kusema kuwa Rusesabigana na uongo wake wa Hotel Rwanda ndio movie ya kweli. Hawatakwambia that he charged lots of money to keep people in the hotel and dined and wined with his interahamwe, FAR and the likes of Bagosora killers.

 

[murutongore]

Man you're bloody cold...
Anyway, why can't you people just move on, whatever they did to you or anyone else during the massacre, can't be paid for, but you need to forgive and help in building the nation.

What do you expect from someone who killed innocent babies without flinching. Tell him to go to the church at Nyamata and see the blood on the walls of the church of babies who were being swung and thrown at the walls without mercy. I'm sure he cannot set foot there because the images will haunt him. Kazi yake ni kutafuta sympathy ya watanzania ili apate legitimacy ya maovu yake.

 

[Nyamuleha jr]

Stelingii anaitwa idris alba ni mmarekani ila alivyo vaa uhusika uwezi zania ni mmarekani amecheza pia ile muvu ya mandela ''the long walk to freedom''

 

[AZUSA STREET]

Movie haziwezi elezea ukweli wote maana ina lifetime ya masaa mawili, wakati ukatili wenyewe ulitendeka kila siku kwa muda. Halafu hii inaelezea picha kwa jicho la familia moja tu na tayari inagofya ajabu.

ukatili ulioonekana kwenye ile movie ulitokea sio vile tu bali zaidi yake. there happened more cruelty than the one you've seen. watu walikuwa wanawindwa kama wanyama, jirani uliyekuwa unakaa naye anakupiga kama mnyama, tusi waliuawa kama wanyama kabisa, roadblocks kila sehemu kuangalia nani tutsi nani sio tutsi.ndani ya siku 100 tu watu zaidi ya laki nane waliuawa, ukatili uleule ndio uliotokea wakati wa holocost kwa wayahudi ulaya miaka ile. my friend, pale Rwanda was unspeakable, beyong what you have seen in that movie. some of us have our mothers who migrated to tz in the 1950s ila babazetu ni wabongo. hii kitu inaumiza sana moyo.

binafsi, ninayo furaha kwa kagame kuifikisha nchi pale ilipofika pamoja na kwamba sipendi anavyochukulia genocide kama mwamvuli wa yeye kuwa mkatili kuua kina karegeya waliokuwa nao msituni, kayumba nyamwasa kupiga na wengine wengi waliokufa tayari. anakuwa hana tofauti na walioua katika genocide.

vilevile, truth and reconciliation is necessary for a lasting union of Rwandans all over the world. wanyarwanda walioko congo wanatakiwa kurudi rwanda hata kama ni rebels, kagame yupo ikulu lakini zamani alikuwa rebel. hata kama rwanda kuna maendeleo kama hakuna maelewano ya kudumu kuna siku genocide nyingine itatokea pamoja na kwamba sitegemei dunia kukaa kimya na kuangalia wenzetu wakiuana kama walivyofanya kipindi kile. Mungu ibariki Tanzania, Mungu ibariki Rwanda.

 

[Mwankole]

lawmaina78 kama una chance itafute movie inaitwa"Shooting the dogs" yaani ni kali kuliko hotel rwanda na sometimes in april.

 

[jMali]

You never cease to amaze me.

of course let's say you are too intelligent to understand me, after all i only use facts and figures don't i?

 

[jMali]

Man you're bloody cold...
Anyway, why can't you people just move on, whatever they did to you or anyone else during the massacre, can't be paid for, but you need to forgive and help in building the nation.

Let's assume i am "you people". forgiveness comes from truth. The truth is what has been narrated by hotel rwanda since it was based on a true story, true hero, true history... and not the fictional sometimes in april thing. which one would you rather have? a fact based one or a fictional one?

 

[murutongore]

of course let's say you are too intelligent to understand me, after all i only use facts and figures don't i?

Like the figures you used to deduce that the Rwanda Day summit in Atlanta was 100% Tutsi. Hahaha, you are cracking my ribs. NOT

 

[jMali]

Kuna fursa kubwa ya kutengeneza movies zingine besides hiyo SOMETIMES IN APRIL. Somebody should create fact based "sometimes in" movies like:

1. Sometimes in 1990: and show how a TUTSI REBEL GROUP RPA invaded a peaceful country for four years until 1994 killing scores of people. Since Rwanda has over 85% Hutu population and less 15% tutsi, the movie should explain why these killings OF FOUR YEARS shouldn't be considered genocide against Hutu.
2. sometimes in 1994: how kagame toppled the legal gov of Rwanda, and shred into pieces the power sharing agreement agreed by both parties in Arusha, made himself minister of defence, vice president and amiri jeshi mkuu, this movie should explain how someone can be amiri jeshi mkuu but "vice president".
this movie should also explain why the majority of people that died are said to be tutsis, while all credible population statistics don't agree, and while the tutsis themselves don't have that many relatives that died, and the main reason why Hutus are denied the right to count to total how many relatives they lost, and any questions like that can give you years in jail like those of VICTOIRE INGABIRE!
The movie should explain how come the leader of interahamwe was actually a tutsi (robert kajuga), and
for tanzanians, it should explain who killed those people whose bodies were floating in river kagera, because kagame's forces were the ones controlling that area of Rwanda across the border, did the tutsi led "interahamwe" go past kagame's strong hold, genocide the tutsis, throw them in river kagera and then go back past kagame's forces without a fight or what?
3. sometimes in 1996: where kagame invaded DRC and massacred Hutu refugees
4. sometimes in 1998: where kagame invaded DRC again claiming kabila was planning genocide against tutsis in DRC! Again scores of congolese killed.
5. sometimes in 1998 part 2: where kagame formed CNDP under laurent nkunda.
6. sometimes in 2012: where Rwanda created M23, the movie should focus on the UN report that states clearly that M23 were actually Rwandese forces, and should remind watakaoangalia that M23 soldiers are in Rwanda RIGHT NOW, na serikali ya Rwanda IMEKATAA KUWARUDISHA DRC! The movie should also explain why all these tutsi rebel group in DRC are formed by the same soldiers like bosco ntaganda, laurent nkunda, sultani makenga who were there fighting for kagame's RPF in 1994! if they were Rwandese then, what makes them congolese today?
7. sometimes forever: about how kagames opponents get assassinated all over the world. isikose mastaa watakaocheza nafasi za patrick karegeya, kayumba Nyamwasa, Prof Jani mwaikusa, waandishi wa habari, wafanyakazi wa mashirika ya haki za binadamu, na wale maofisa wote wa serikali wanaolazimika kuomba hifadhi nchi za nje kama balozi rudasingwa, david himbara, etc.

ma-directors mnakaribishwa

 

[murutongore]

jMali
Hahahahaha.....one thing i agree with you is that you have enough time on your hand. Hii riwaya yote ni kwa sababu unamchukia kagame tu? You know if this obsession with Kagame both of you were in the developed world wangekua wameshakukamata because you are a cyber stalker.

 

[AZUSA STREET]

Hahahahaha.....one thing i agree with you is that you have enough time on your hand. Hii riwaya yote ni kwa sababu unamchukia kagame tu? You know if this obsession with Kagame both of you were in the developed world wangekua wameshakukamata because you are a cyber stalker.

mimi pia namchukia kagame kuliko mtu yeyote yule pamoja na kwamba naipenda Rwanda kuliko ninavyoipenda kenya.

na kwa huyu unayebishana naye, kuhusu kwamba kabla ya 94 RPA waliua, ni kweli waliua lakini ilikuwa kwenye civil war, sio genocide. ile genocide was prepared, lots of containers from China full of matchettes were imported. kipindi kile at least every hutu had an opportunity to own a machette, kwasababu waligawiwa na genocide leaders. hivi utajiuliza mapanga yote yale yalitoka wapi? yaliuw amengi kuliko mapanga unayoweza kukusana hapa tz.