Paul Rusesabagina (played by Don Cheadle) in "Hotel Rwanda," a newly released film in Seoul, is a character whose exceptional talents to associate with high socialites in the nation. And his blessed talent came in handy when everything being thrown to a total chaos. He had an intuition to see upcoming events and a sharp observation to untangle complicated matters. Thanks to having him around, more than a thousand Rwandans saved their lives and so did many "whiltes," mostly foreign guests who stayed at the hotel where Paul worked as a house manager.
However, even this distinguished character had a flaw. He trusted the UN, the west, "the whites," and all the other glorious illusions they brought to the country. When Hutus started the massacre against Tutsis, he went around and comforted Tutsi neighbors including his own wife and her family by saying that the international community won't sit around and just watched this inhumane atrocity happening. Guess what? They did. The helpless UN Peace Force commander Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Romeo Dallaire played by Nick Nolte was rather pathetic and torn by totally overwhelming atrocities he witnessed and dispair from not being able to draw any aids from the UN, or not even an international attention on the issue. No wonder why Dallaire had severely suffered from a mental disfunction afterwards. The scene when the mission of a newly dispatched peace keeping force was only evacuating "whites" and leaving devastated Rwandans behind was clearly indicating there indeed exists a crossline among the man kind, and questioning the foundation of the UN.
We have been calling out for a reformation of the UN for decades that the UN must be a place we talk about the harmony and peace for all, not a place where nations pursue only their nations' priorities. However, it is easier to say than to be done as always. Things regarding the issue seem far to go and throwing out tasks to us, today.
