Image: Dr James Orbinski returns to Rwanda and visits the site of a mass-grave.Last night I went to the Human Rights Film Festival to watch Triage, the story of a humanitarian Doctor with Medecins Sans Frontieres who saw the worst things imaginable during the 1994 genocide.
“I still have, and I always will I think, a nearly uncontainable rage about what happened in Rwanda, in Somalia and in many other parts of the world and about what's happening now in many parts of the world. To see mothers and fathers and children dying of indifference, dying of neglect, of abuse, of somebody's political calculation, that that doesn't matter. It fills me first of all with just profound sorrow that they have to live that and die it. And then it fills me with rage, frankly. And the question then is what do you do? What do you do with that?” - Dr James Orbinski
I highly recommend this movie and the Human Rights Film Festival. We're so lucky to be able to watch these stories and not have to live through them. I love any movie that opens my eyes and heart to the realities of the world. Because it gives you a context with which to frame your own challenges and problems. It also leaves you to question your life's role and responsibility on Earth. Dr Orbinski had a great quote for this too:
“We are responsible for our lives and for our world. And if we don't engage that responsibility, no one else will and we will live or die with a legacy of our failures.” - Dr James Orbinski
So have you seen any movies lately that have rocked your world in this way? Maybe think about it next time you're deciding what to watch at the video library or cinema.
I think we are thinking feeling same way I just read Michelles article on the congo and understand and feel the Rage. James describes. .http://www.theage.com.au/world/rape-the-silent-war-on-the-women-of-congo-20081121-6e42.html
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