No, this man did not want the back of his head to look like a baseball. He was attacked by machete weilding savages in Kenya.
His name is Zacharia Kamau, he’s a victim of the post election violence that has been ravaging his country for the past few weeks.
I saw Shake Hands with the Devil on the way back from Toronto this weekend. It’s the story of Romeo Dallaire’s time in Rwanda. It tells a similar story to Hotel Rwanda.
Basically the nation was tossed aside by the rest of the world as it was ripped apart by genocide and violence. Is the same happening to Kenyans today?
When the municipal elections roll around in November, will you be “too busy” to vote? Will you be largely uniformed and apathetic?
Think of Zacharia and the price he has paid to fight for the right to choose.
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I love this. Such a good reminder.
I tried to watch Shake Hands on the way back to Regina, but watched a short film first, and missed out on the last 15 minutes of the chilling film.
What, did we all get lured by the siren of an extremely depressing in-flight movie? I blame the Romeo Dallaire question on TTN, because I picked that film, too.
Oddly, there are two different films called “Shake Hands with the Devil.” The first was a 2004 documentary. The second, and the one available on the plane, was the 2007 drama.
There are at least two or three more films (Hotel Rwanda, another doc or two) on the subject as well. Dallaire famously doesn’t have much to say about Hotel Rwanda; he was fictionalized as a character played by Nick Nolte.
Saskboy: honestly, you didn’t miss much. The last fifteen minutes don’t transform the story substantially.