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Hand of God, Hand of the Devil

The second volume of the three-part film series on Rwanda investigates Rwanda’s colonial past and explores Canada's role in the development of the genocidal ideology that started taking shape in the early 1960s when the country gained its independence and Belgian missionaries fled the country....

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Institution:Open Society Archives at Central European University
Language:English
Subjects:
[Censorship, Sexualities/LGBT movements, Human rights organizations, Environmentalist and anti-nuclear movements, Feminist movements/Women's movements, Nationalisms/Autonomist and Separatist movements, Capitalism/Anti-capitalist movements/anti-globalization movements, Military Conflicts and Activities]
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:79cb918c-40a4-4ed3-aa3d-34024af14718
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Summary:The second volume of the three-part film series on Rwanda investigates Rwanda’s colonial past and explores Canada's role in the development of the genocidal ideology that started taking shape in the early 1960s when the country gained its independence and Belgian missionaries fled the country. The film tells the story of Father Claude Simard who was murdered in October 1994 in the Rwandan village of Ruyenzi and Brother François Cardinal (Brothers of Christian Instruction, a lay Catholic order) who was assassinated in Kigali by a six-person commando squad. Besides interviews with victims of the genocide as well as perpetrators, the film features interviews with: Brother François Cardinal, Father Georges Henri Leveque, Christine Stewart (Canadian Politician), Grégoire Kayibanda (the first elected President of the Republic of Rwanda), Ltd. Celestin Kayitenkule, Capt. Tim Leesberg (Canadian UNAMIR), Major General Guy De Tousignant (Commander U.N. Mission to Rwanda, UNAMIR), Paul Kagame (Former Minister of Defense and Former Vice-President of Rwanda), and Ltd. Wilson Gamesirire.

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