THEATER
Unexplored Interior
Jay O. Sanders
Tonight was a new experience for us. We attended a "Pre-Production Reading" of a play about the genocide in Rwanda.
Several weeks ago we enjoyed an evening with the author of this play and his wife. She is a former Tony Award winner. He is well-known and respected in the theater community in New York. It was then that they invited us to this reading.
The actors read the play before what was a capacity audience at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. The house was about 250 people composed of theater lovers, potential investors, and members of the Rwandan Delegation to the United Nations.
What we saw was the normal incubation of getting a play's writing finalized, financed, and produced.
One of the jolts of the play involved Boutros Boutros Ghali. The United Nations sent a small UN military force to keep the peace between the Hutus and the Tutsis and then try to stop the genocide. The commander of the UN mission was a Canadian. The UN force failed because the Hutus were so heavily armed. Clinton and the USA knew and did nothing about the genocide. Note from Wikipedia who armed the Hutus!
"According to investigative journalist Linda Melvern, Boutros-Ghali approved a secret $26 million arms sale to the government of Rwanda in 1990 when he was Egyptian Foreign Minister, the weapons stockpiled by the Hutu regime as part of the fairly public, long-term preparations for the subsequent genocide. He was serving as UN Secretary-General when the killings occurred 4 years later."
What we saw was the normal incubation of getting a play's writing finalized, financed, and produced.
One of the jolts of the play involved Boutros Boutros Ghali. The United Nations sent a small UN military force to keep the peace between the Hutus and the Tutsis and then try to stop the genocide. The commander of the UN mission was a Canadian. The UN force failed because the Hutus were so heavily armed. Clinton and the USA knew and did nothing about the genocide. Note from Wikipedia who armed the Hutus!
"According to investigative journalist Linda Melvern, Boutros-Ghali approved a secret $26 million arms sale to the government of Rwanda in 1990 when he was Egyptian Foreign Minister, the weapons stockpiled by the Hutu regime as part of the fairly public, long-term preparations for the subsequent genocide. He was serving as UN Secretary-General when the killings occurred 4 years later."
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