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    The document summarizes the plot of the film Hotel Rwanda and discusses the role of the United Nations in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. It describes how the film follows Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who shelters over 1,000 refugees to protect them from the ethnic violence occurring outside. While the UN had launched a peacekeeping mission earlier, it failed to adequately respond when the genocide began in April 1994, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus. The role of the UN is to maintain peace and security, but in Rwanda it did not demonstrate enough commitment to protect civilians from the threats of violence and genocide.

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    The document summarizes the plot of the film Hotel Rwanda and discusses the role of the United Nations in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. It describes how the film follows Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who shelters over 1,000 refugees to protect them from the ethnic violence occurring outside. While the UN had launched a peacekeeping mission earlier, it failed to adequately respond when the genocide began in April 1994, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus. The role of the UN is to maintain peace and security, but in Rwanda it did not demonstrate enough commitment to protect civilians from the threats of violence and genocide.

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    SHORT SUMMARY AND ROLE OF UNITED NATION IN AREAS WITH CONFLICT

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    The document summarizes the plot of the film Hotel Rwanda and discusses the role of the United Nations in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. It describes how the film follows Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who shelters over 1,000 refugees to protect them from the ethnic violence occurring outside. While the UN had launched a peacekeeping mission earlier, it failed to adequately respond when the genocide began in April 1994, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus. The role of the UN is to maintain peace and security, but in Rwanda it did not demonstrate enough commitment to protect civilians from the threats of violence and genocide.

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    Hotel Rwanda Movie Reflection

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    The document summarizes the plot of the film Hotel Rwanda and discusses the role of the United Nations in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. It describes how the film follows Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who shelters over 1,000 refugees to protect them from the ethnic violence occurring outside. While the UN had launched a peacekeeping mission earlier, it failed to adequately respond when the genocide began in April 1994, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus. The role of the UN is to maintain peace and security, but in Rwanda it did not demonstrate enough commitment to protect civilians from the threats of violence and genocide.

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    Jasmine Erica S.

    Mercado BSA 1A

    REFLECTION PAPER: HOTEL RWANDA

    Plot Summary and the Role of United Nations

    Hotel Rwanda directed by Terry George, is based on real life events in Rwanda during the
    spring of 1994, the film revolves around star Don Cheadle as Paul Rusesabagina in his gamble to save
    his family in the bickering civil war but finally resolved to save a thousand more. He is a manger in a
    Belgian-owned Rwandan hotel, the Hôtel des Mille Collines, which caters wealthy international guests.
    Paul is a Hutu, while his mother, wife, children and extended family are all Tutsi.

    This scene is played out against the background of real-life complicated and dangerous
    incidents. Rwanda is home to two large ethnic groups: the Hutu majority, and the Tutsi. Hutu-Tutsi
    tensions lead to a war in Rwanda, where bribery and bribes are common among politicians. As the
    country's political situation worsens, Paul and his family watch neighbors killed in ethnic violence.
    Paul targets influential people, bribing them with cash and alcohol, trying to maintain enough power
    to keep his family safe. As civil war erupts and an officer in the Rwandan Army threatens Paul and his
    neighbors, Paul is barely negotiating their safety, compelled to take all refugees to take shelter in his
    hotel. More refugees from the overburdened UN camp, the Red Cross, and orphanages come to the
    hotel. Paul must stop the Hutu troops, take care of the refugees, be a source of strength for his family
    and preserve the appearance of a working high-class hotel as the situation becomes more violent.

    The United Nation’s role is to maintain peace and security. Within the U.N. system, the 1945
    U.N. Charter places the principal responsibility for maintaining international peace and security on the
    Security Council (Schaefer, 2016). The UN does this by working to prevent war, by supporting parties
    in conflict to make peace, by maintaining peace and by creating the conditions for keeping and
    sustaining peace. Expectations increased, as regards the capacity of UN missions to protect civilians
    across vast areas of operations. Although UN peace operations have sometimes acted with
    determination to prevent these threats from worsening and to provide protection for civilians, they
    have at other times failed to demonstrate adequate commitment and action in the face of threats to
    civilians.

    According to Winfield (1999), the United Nations launched its peacekeeping mission for
    Rwanda in October 1993 to monitor a cease-fire agreement between the Rwandan Hutu government
    and the rebel Rwandese Patriotic Front. In addition, the mission proved insufficient after the
    government launched the slaughter on April 6, 1994 of an estimated 800,000 Tutsis minority and
    moderate Hutus after the downfall of the plane of the Rwandan president.

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