Friday, May 23, 2008

Hotel Rwanda Clip


This week as I was preparing for a sermon about the poor and the oppressed, I was reminded of this convicting clip in Hotel Rwanda. It is a film that talks about the genocide of 800,000 pople in 100 days in Rwanda in 1994. Just as a comparison: 2700 people died in the Twin towers and the Pentagon on 9-11. The genocide in Rwanda would be the same as the World Trade Center and the Pentagon tragedy happening at 8am, 4pm and midnight every single day for 3.5 months.

Here is the clip on Youtube from Hotel Rwanda:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QMKv3vRHtg

2 comments:

Jeremy said...

"and then go on eating their dinners..." pretty convicting. i think about darfur, myanmar - all of the atrocities that are going on even now - and i feel overwhelmed. i am thankful that we have a god that is sovereign. i pray that i will not be too lured by our western comforts to help the oppressed of this world. i pray that all of us will feel that weight.

Colleen said...

I'm glad you posted this clip. It reminded me of the documentary I saw last year The Devil Came on Horseback. Extremely convicting footage about what's happening now in Darfur.