HIDDEN FROM THE WESTERN WORLD By: Al Cronkrite

English filmmaker Michael Caton-Jones has made a movie about a real-life incident during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda entitled “Beyond The Gates”. It stars John Hurt as a Catholic priest who lived in Africa for thirty years and was the director of a Catholic school and Hugh Dancy, the idealistic son of a well to do British family, as a young teacher at the school.

Caught in their compound by the vicious crescendo of violence that overtook this tiny nation and surrounded by Hutu killers, the priest and the teacher along with a couple of dozen other white refugees and over 2 thousand Tutsis were kept safe by United Nations troops until the troops were ordered out. The young teacher joined the evacuation which was confined to white Europeans but the priest stayed with his parishioners. All who stayed joined the 800 thousand to one million whose dead bodies littered the terrain of this Maryland sized nation; most were gleefully hacked to death with machetes.

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