In the movie "Hotel Rwanda" the hotel is run by an
organization outside of the country and the people in the hotel are witnesses to the
barbaric slaughter of the Tutsi peoples by Hutus. The government that was in power knew
what was occurring but it was of benefit to the government to allow the genocide of the
Tutsi people. The government had the power to stop it but chose to do
nothing.
Another example was that the United Nations had
sent a peace mission consisting of troops into the area, but they had orders not to
intervene. They could only guard the hotel until people came to collect the whites and
people of importance staying at the hotel. Inside the hotel hidden away were thousands
of Tutsi people.
Both of these were examples of
neo-colonialism.
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