Charlotte+Westwater

Hotel Rwanda Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2vMvyQeb1U

Video about Rwandan Patriotic Front (1:29-2:40) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9FEpZRRFlM&feature=fvw

Rwandan National Anthem 2002 Invaluable heritage, that God protects to you You filled us priceless goods Our common culture identifies us Our single language unifies us That our intelligence, our conscience and our forces Fill you with varied riches For an unceasingly renewed development.

Our valorous ancestors Gave themselves bodies and souls As far as making you a big nation You overcame the colonial-imperialistic yoke That has devastated Africa entirely And has your joy of your sovereign independence Acquired that constantly we will defend.

Rwandan National Anthem 1962

Home-born Rwandans all, beat the victory drums! Democracy has triumphed in our land. All of us together we have striven for it arduously. Together we have decreed it- Tutsi, Twa, Hutu, with other racial elements, This hard-won Independence of ours, Let us all join to build it up! Let us cherish it in peace and in truth, In freedom and in harmony!

Song about Simon Bikindi (by Tom Flannery) song: http://www.songaweek.com/mp3s/03192004_bikindi.MP3

would you still dance around the room? sweeping away the dirt as though your feet were like a broom what if I used this song as a call to arms on the airwaves here and now would you pick up the knife or the gun if I told you how? What if I used this song to hide behind the words I say if I said "after all, it's just a song" would you look the other way? what if I used this song to excuse the things that I've been told from the day that I was born until the day that I grew old Bikindi is my name Bikindi is my name love will prevail over hatred only the killing will remain What if I used this song to burn your house down to the ground and where your children once looked to the sky they now stare at the ground what if I used this song to kill would you pay for my third car? maybe you just feel like dancing or would just love to be a star Bikindi is my name Bikindi is my name love will prevail over hatred only the killing will remain ||
 * What if I used this song to hate

"The Awakening" (aka "I Hate Those Hutus") by Simon Bikindi

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“I hate those Hutus, those de-hutuized Hutus, who have given up their identity, dear comrades. I hate those Hutus, those Hutus who walk blindly. Fools, naive Hutus committed in a war of which they do not know the cause… I hate those Hutus who can be brought to kill and who, I swear, kill Hutus, dear comrades. And if I hate them, it’s all for the better”=====