Perhaps they wanted repercussions.
In Somalia 18 Americans died. It was enough to force a complete withdraw.
As you see these are not stupid people.
Will the UN withdraw? What you think, Charles?
At the moment my orders are to remain in position.
But if your orders change?
I'm a soldier.
Can't imagine what it must be like for you.
Whoever wanted to talk. If any of your men ever wanted to talk.
My grandparents were Belgian, from Mehanen.
When the Nazis came through that town, they took in as many Jews as they could 20, maybe 30 people.
Everyone asked to hand them over. But my grandparents saved those people. I was always proud of that.
Stop it!
Stop it immediately!
What's going here?
He was walking across over there with a machete.
He is Interahamwe.
You all stay calm.
Are you alright?
I'm afraid, Joe.
- Everything's alright here. - For you maybe.
See that woman there, her name is Rachel. She's with the television crew.
And they gonna film us. If they are filming us, no one can touch us.
You're okay?
Why did you come here?
You know, growing up...
I had everything that kid can want.
And... it's just me trying to say "thank you" I guess.
Trying to make a difference.
I know it. I catch myself sometimes thinking "well done, Joe. You are really doing it."
You are starring in your own film.
And then there's all this.
Last year in Bosnia I felt exactly the same way.
How was that?
Great actually.
Best stuff I've ever done.
Cried every day.
Strangely enough over here... not a tear.
I guess you get on to it.
No.
Just worse than that.
Anytime I saw a dead Bosnian woman, white woman, I feel... that could be my mom.
Over here they're just dead Africans.
All things the same.
We're all just selfish pieces of work.
- Shit. What the fuck is that? - That's all right. It's just the generators.
I'm surprised that didn't happen already.
Okay.
- Where is it coming from? - It's there.
Breathe and push!
Good girl.
Breathe.
Push!
Breathe and push.
Remember to breathe.
Push!
We have the head.
Push!
Oh yes. Push!
Push Edda, you are doing really well. Come on.
Push!
She wants to call the baby Christopher.
Thank you.
I think, Christopher is an awful name.
The fathers at Yamata have been murdered.
In that church.
What?
Father Jean?
And all the parishioners. Hacked to death.
Jesus Christ.
I have not seen this before.
Did you get to the convent?
The line is dead.
What you're doing?
I've set Mass every Monday with that convent for 12 years.
Christopher.
I have to go.
It's not gonna make any difference that you're priest or you are white.
They don't care who you are anymore.
- I'll be aright. - You won't be alright. I've been out there and it's falling apart.
They might already be dead.
That's not the point.
This baby is not well.
He has a fewer.
There's also discharge coming from his eyes.
There's nothing here.
You know exactly what we need?
Yes.
- First the medicine, then the convent. - You don't have to do this, you know.
Yes I do, Joe.
Good morning, Julius.
Good morning.
I need some medicine.
We have some, I think.
What is the child's name?
Christopher.
Do you have the medicine?
And what is the child's address?
Do you have the medicine?
Follow me.
This child is Hutu or Tutsi?
Hutu.
Wait here.
I knew I had it. It will help him.
Take a lot of care out there.
Thank you.
Father Christopher.
It's me, remember the hurdles?
You see?
Don't.
No, it's medicine.
Medicine?
It is my medicine.
Christopher.
We need you to tell the rest of the school that we are having problems with the dogs.
Dogs?
The dogs, outside the gate, eating the bodies.
Can you please just inform everyone that we have a health problem here.
We are going to shoot the dogs.
If they hear gunshots, they should not panic. Okay?
Did they open fire?
Did they open fire, Charles?
Did who open fire?
The dogs.
Were they shooting at you?
What are you talking about?
This is according to your mandate, if you are going to shoot the dogs then the dogs must have been shooting at you first.
Please...
I'll tell you what.
Why don't we just say 'fuck the mandate'?!
And when you're finished with this health problem maybe you'll address the other health problem?
The one over there!
With that fucking machetes.
We have no more fuel for the fire.
Use the Bibles.
We'd end go around if we share. Come on.
Christopher.
You know what, Joe.
People have been coming to Mass here for God knows how long.
They get up, they go to church, they sing, they eat the bread and then they leave.
Do you know why?
Because they are told to.
They just go through the motions without the slightest understanding of what it is they are engaged in.
Whether they are being told to eat a wafer or hack their own flesh and blood to death.
You are wrong, father.
I know you've made a difference.
I spent 30 years on this bloody continent.
The only thing we ever had that ever stayed the same was hope.
I always had hope, Joe.
In fact this is all we ever had.
Now...
...nothing.
We are running dry.
Do you receive, Christopher into the congregation of Christ's flock?
And so sign him with the sign of the cross.
And intook on that here after he shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified.
The man will lead his fight under his banner against sin, the world and the devil.
And he will continue as Christ faithful soldier and servant...
...until his life's end.
Amen.
It's the French.
Bastards, they’re only taking the whites.
What?
They are only taking the whites.
- But they can't do it. - Until your Capitaine stated, they were only taking French.
Excuse me, is there room for me on this truck?
If you hurry up - yes.
Then I wanna donate my place to one of these people. Her name is Marie Motagoma.
No, no Rwandans.
Joe, come on, get on this truck.
For fuck sake, Joe, there's nothing more you can do here.
I'm staying.
I believe in God, the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his Son, the Lord.
Keep going.
Does he love everyone?
Does he even love those men on the roads outside?
God does not always like everything we do.
That's our choice.
But he loves all his children.
Has anybody seen Edda?
Edda, the woman with the baby.
Did you see Edda with the baby?
Cause I have a medicine for the baby.
Claude, have you seen Edda or Aaron?
- They are running away. - What?
- Where? - Over the back field.
Edda.
Don't cry.
How much pain can a human being take?
If you feel enough pain, does everything just shut down?
Before you've done it.
I don't know, Joe.
Cause you think no one knew.
You think that it'd be something...
Something that you designed, you know, shed or fell.
If you feel enough pain.
I hope so.
Yeah, God knows it.
Maybe we should ask him.
He's still around.
I think it's time we pack our bags.
Marie.
You'll never leave us, papa Christopher?
Terrible things may happen in this world, Marie.
But however terrible they are, you are in my heart.
And you will be there until I die.
Joe, may I have a word with you?
I have orders to withdraw to the airport.
How long do we have?
We leave in 30 minutes.
Joe, you must come. If you do not come you will die, it's very simple.
What about these people?
You must understand, I've been given no choice.
They could have been alright.
- Come with me, Joe. - If they knew they’d abandoned, then why would they've come?
- We don't have time for all this. - And now there's nothing we can do.
These children might die without taking Holy Communion.
We can do something about that.
This is the lime of God.
Happy are those who are called to his supper.
- Body of Christ. - Amen.
Body of Christ.
Amen.
Body of Christ.
Amen.
Burden that we have set down at the door of the church for this Eucharist.
We know, we must now bear again.
But now strengthened by this Eucharist and this community.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen.
Go in peace.
Joe.
Where are you going?
I'm sorry.
You promised.
I'm sorry.
Capitaine Delon.
Capitaine.
I have a polite request.
It's just from all of us...
...the people of Kuchekiro and refugees of this school.
We are all fathers, mothers, sons, daughters.
We are all one family now.
And that is as one family that we wish to die.
Therefore we politely request just before you leave us that your soldiers use their guns to kill us.
We do not wish to be killed by machete.
The bullets will kill us all quickly.
And it will be much less pain.
I'm sorry I can not agree to your request.
Please.
If not for us...
Please spare the children the pain.
I am sorry.
Please, just the children.
I can not help you.
Christopher.
I have to stay.
I can't...
I know.
That's how it should be.
Really.
Why are you doing this?
You asked me, Joe, where is God in everything that is happening in here, in all this suffering?
I know exactly where he is.
He is right here with these people, suffering.
His love is here.
More intense and profound than I have ever felt.
And my heart is here, Joe.
My soul.
If I leave I think I may not find it again.
Find fulfillment in everything, Joe.
Don't worry.
Roland.
Good boy.
Squash up.
Squeeze.
Good boy.
You now really squash up.
We got room for one more.
Now, stay under the cover, don't move and not a squeak!
When I come back I want another load ready to leave.
BEGIN THE WORK!
Julius.
Where are you going?
I have an important meeting with Bishop Vincent.
Bishop Vincent is not in Kigali.
Where are you driving to meet him?
He said he will be in Butare.
Why are you in this truck?
It's the school truck, Julius.
You know where I work.
Julius.
We know each other well.
I don't understand....
You have stolen this vehicle.
No, you're just being an idiot.
This is not a joke.
Alright, I'm sorry.
But listen, Julius.
We know each other.
I don't understand why we are having this conversation.
Put your hands on the truck.
Alright, but why can't we sit down and talk about this for a while?
Do you want money, Julius?
Put your hands on the truck.
Nienzi lover.
Do as I say.
Look at yourselves.
Just look at yourselves.
Okay.
Enough.
Do you think you are saint because you are priest?
Do you?
Do you know what's so strange, Julius, even now?
When I'm looking at you, into your eyes, the only feeling that I have inside me is love.
Is it true that you have a specific guidance not to use the word 'genocide in isolation', but you always took preference to the word 'act'?
I have guidance which I try to use as best as I can.
I'm not... I have... There are formulations that we are using, that we are trying to be consistent in our use of...
I don't have an absolute categorical prescription against something, but I have the definitions, I have phraseology, which has been
carefully examined as best as we can apply to examine the situation and...
How many acts of genocide does it take to make genocide?
That's just not a question that I'm in position to answer.
Clearly not all of the killings, that have taken place in Rwanda are killings, to which you may apply that label.
FIVE YEARS LATER.
- Good morning, mister Conor. - Good morning, sir.
This place is very hard to find.
Yes, I know.
So this is where Father Christopher went to school?
He was a young priest here.
He made a big sacrifice for us.
I remember he would say "Sacrifice is the most you can love someone".
You know, when I was running I thought of you in my head.
You remember that day when you were commentating?
It was so strange, when I was running for my life I was so frightened, but they were in my head.
Talking and talking, like you wouldn't shut up.
Why did you leave us?
I was afraid to die.
We are fortunate.
All this time we've been given.
We must use it well.
ON APRIL 11th 1994 OVER 2500 RWANDANS, ABANDONED BY THE UN AT THE ECOLE TECHNIQUE OFFICIELLE, WERE MURDERED BY EXTREMIST MILITIAS
BETWEEN APRIL AND JULY OF THAT YEAR, OVER 800,000 RWANDANS WERE KILLED IN THE GENOCIDE
THIS FILM COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MADE WITHOUT THE PARTICIPATION AND GENEROSITY OF THE SURVIVORS OF THE MASSACRE AT THE ECOLE TECHNIQUE OFFICIELLE
THE FILM IS DEDICATED TO THEM, AND TO ALL WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE GENOCIDE