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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, August 18-20, 2004 The Park Record C-6 Director to speak tonight Fidelity Investments Park City s i • • . : ' - . ; « razz ', Two Stages^ 0fi Fantastic Event Deer Valley Resort August v, August 2j Chaka Khan with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra jjhe Rippingtons featuring Russ Freeman ? * f r Frederick James McCray | Crescent School Little Big Bantf ^ :•. v . " F ;' •;. Saturday, A ugust % The David Sanborn Band Los Hombres Calientes featuring Bill Summers and Irvin Mayfield Jeff Linsky Quartet, John Flanders and ' Double Helix, Park City Jazz Foundation '''•'All-Star Student Combo t ^ - *m=* •--.•-•; -™ir_--.- PHOTO COURTESY OF PBS/FRONTLINE A young child glares at the skulls of those who lost their life in Rwanda. concentrating mostly at the time on Bosnia and Haiti." UN. peacekeepers in Rwanda who Hie film also reveals in detail were ordered tiol lo intervene in the how the Rwandan Hutu extremists massacre happening all around them. not only secretly planned and executHie documentary features inter- ed a detailed plan for genocide, but views with Canadian General Romeo also calibrated their actions to ensure Da Do ire, W.N. Secretary-General that the West would not intervene. Kofi Annan, former Secretary o\" Today, many in the West still Slate Madeleine Albright, former question how they could have interUN. Secretary-General Boutros vened in a crisis about which they Boulros-Cihnli and former National had little understanding. "This was Security Adviser Anthony Lake, as also a lesson that I learned profoundwell as haunting interviews with the ly as a diplomat," Ambassador I lulu killers themselves and a power- Prudence Bushnell, principal deputy ful interview with BH(' journalist assistant secretary of slate for Fergnl Keane who traveled through African affairs for the Clinton Rwanda as the genocide was drawing administration, tells FRONTLINE. to a close. "To come with our own assumpIn addition to dramatic accounts tions, our own values, to move either 0 I'events on the ground in Rwanda - diplomatically, physically, psychoincluding the frenzied evacuation of logically into another country and all U.S. cili/ens and foreign nation- think that we can understand it als even as Rwandan citizens begged because we are sharing the same in vain for protection from the mur- vocabulary words, is to really delude dering mobs "Ghosts of Rwanda" yourself." S h e follows the "high politics" of adds, "What was happening in Washington, New York and Hurope Rwanda was very complicated, and examining how an internal policy certainly beyond my understanding." debate that placed national interest While "Ghosts of Rwanda" investiahove humanitarian responsibilities gates the relationship between Africa prevented officials from responding and the West, the film also details the lo the Rwandan crisis. personal experiences of the few forAccording lo Anthony Lake, for- eigners who stayed in Rwanda and mer f'resident Clinton's national had an enormous impact like security adviser, there was little dis- Philippe Gaillard of the Red Cross. cussion at his level about Rwanda. "I Gaillard was the only representaasked some o\' the people from the tive of a major aid organization to Defense Intelligence Agency. 'So remain in Rwanda throughout the what's going on? Who's killing who? genocide. Although his organization 1 haven't seen much about this.' And has a tradition of quiet-spoken neuthey couldn't tell me," Lake recalls. trality, Galliard-decidcd Rwanda was "I should have reached out and said different and he went public with his "fell me more.' And I didn't. |I was] estimate of how many people had • Continued from C-5 been killed in a matter of two weeks: 100,000. "In such circumstances, if you don't at least speak out clearly, you are participating [in] the genocide. If you just shut up when you see what you see ... morally, ethically you cannot shut up. It's ;t responsibility to talk, to speak out " The commander oi' the UN. peacekeeping force in Rwanda, Gen. Romeo Dallaire, says he remains haunted by his inability to stop the killing. "Rwanda will never leave me: it's in the pores oi~ my body ...We saw lots of them dying, and lots of those eyes still haunt me angry eyes, innocent eyes. They're looking at me with my blue beret, and they're saying, 'What in the hell happened?'" Greg Barker Greg Barker is director, writer and producer of the documentary feature "Ghosts of Rwanda," the culmination of Barkers six years of research into the history of the Rwandan genocide. Prior to his career in filmmaking. Barker was a broadcast journalist in more than 40 countries, reporting from Yugoslavia and the first Gulf War for Reuters. CNN and others. Barker holds a master's in international relations from the London School o'C Economics and a bachelor's of arts in economics from George Washington University. Greg Barker nil! be at the Christian Center of Park City. 1100 Iron Horse Drive, to present his film Wednesday, Aug. /A1 at 7 p.m. Admission is free. 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