Shooting Dogs Page #4

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What you think, Charles?

At the moment my orders

are to remain in position.

But if your orders change?

I'm a soldier.

Can't imagine what

it must be like for you.

Whoever wanted to talk.

If any of your men ever wanted to talk.

My grandparents were Belgian, from Mehanen.

When the Nazis came through that town, they took

in as many Jews as they could 20, maybe 30 people.

Everyone asked to hand them over. But my grandparents

saved those people. I was always proud of that.

Stop it!

Stop it immediately!

What's going here?

He was walking across over there with a machete.

He is Interahamwe.

You all stay calm.

You all stay calm.

Are you alright?

I'm afraid, Joe.

- Everything's alright here.

- For you maybe.

See that woman there, her name is Rachel.

She's with the television crew.

And they gonna film us. If they are

filming us, no one can touch us.

You're okay?

Why did you come here?

You know, growing up...

I had everything that kid can want.

And... it's just me trying to say

"thank you" I guess.

Trying to make a difference.

I know it. I catch myself sometimes thinking

"Well done, Joe. You are really doing it. "

You are starring in your own film.

And then there's all this.

Last year in Bosnia

I felt exactly the same way.

How was that?

Great actually.

Best stuff I've ever done.

Cried every day.

Strangely enough over here... not a tear.

I guess you get on to it.

No.

Just worse than that.

Anytime I saw a dead Bosnian woman,

white woman, I feel... that could be my mom.

Over here they're just dead Africans.

All things the same.

We're all just selfish pieces of work.

- Sh*t. What the f*** is that?

- That's all right. It's just the generators.

I'm surprised that didn't happen already.

Okay.

- Where is it coming from?

- It's there.

Breathe and push!

Good girl.

Breathe.

Push!

Breathe and push.

Remember to breathe.

Push!

We have the head.

Push!

Oh yes. Push!

Push Edda, you are doing really well. Come on.

Push!

She wants to call the baby Christopher.

Thank you.

I think, Christopher is an awful name.

The fathers at Yamata have been murdered.

In that church.

What?

Father Jean?

And all the parishioners. Hacked to death.

Jesus Christ.

I have not seen this before.

Did you get to the convent?

The line is dead.

What you're doing?

I've set Mass every Monday

with that convent for 12 years.

Christopher.

I have to go.

It's not gonna make any difference

that you're priest or you are white.

They don't care who you are anymore.

- I'll be aright.

- You won't be alright. I've been out there and it's falling apart.

They might already be dead.

That's not the point.

This baby is not well.

He has a fewer.

There's also discharge

coming from his eyes.

There's nothing here.

You know exactly what we need?

Yes.

- First the medicine, then the convent.

- You don't have to do this, you know.

Yes I do, Joe.

Good morning, Julius.

Good morning.

I need some medicine.

We have some, I think.

What is the child's name?

Christopher.

Do you have the medicine?

And what is the child's address?

Do you have the medicine?

Follow me.

This child is Hutu or Tutsi?

Hutu.

Wait here.

I knew I had it.

It will help him.

Take a lot of care out there.

Thank you.

Father Christopher.

It's me, remember the hurdles?

You see?

Don't.

No, it's medicine.

Medicine?

It is my medicine.

Christopher.

We need you to tell the rest of the school

that we are having problems with the dogs.

Dogs?

The dogs, outside the gate,

eating the bodies.

Can you please just inform everyone

that we have a health problem here.

We are going to shoot the dogs.

If they hear gunshots,

they should not panic. Okay?

Did they open fire?

Did they open fire, Charles?

Did who open fire?

The dogs.

Were they shooting at you?

What are you talking about?

This is according to your mandate, if you are going to shoot

the dogs then the dogs must have been shooting at you first.

Please...

I'll tell you what.

Why don't we just say

'f*** the mandate'?!

And when you're finished with this health problem

maybe you'll address the other health problem?

The one over there!

With that f***ing machetes.

We have no more fuel for the fire.

Use the Bibles.

We'd end go around if we share. Come on.

Christopher.

You know what, Joe.

People have been coming to Mass

here for God knows how long.

They get up, they go to church, they sing,

they eat the bread and then they leave.

Do you know why?

Because they are told to.

They just go through the motions without the

slightest understanding of what it is they are engaged in.

Whether they are being told to eat a wafer

or hack their own flesh and blood to death.

You are wrong, father.

I know you've made a difference.

I spent 30 years on this bloody continent.

The only thing we ever had that

ever stayed the same was hope.

I always had hope, Joe.

In fact this is all we ever had.

Now...

...nothing.

We are running dry.

Do you receive, Christopher into

the congregation of Christ's flock?

And so sign him with

the sign of the cross.

And intook on that here after he shall not be

ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified.

The man will lead his fight under his

banner against sin, the world and the devil.

And he will continue as Christ

faithful soldier and servant...

...until his life's end.

Amen.

It's the French.

Bastards, they're only taking the whites.

What?

They are only taking the whites.

- But they can't do it.

- Until your Capitaine stated, they were only taking French.

Excuse me, is there room for me on this truck?

If you hurry up - yes.

Then I wanna donate my place to one of

these people. Her name is Marie Motagoma.

No, no Rwandans.

Joe, come on, get on this truck.

For f*** sake, Joe, there's

nothing more you can do here.

I'm staying.

I believe in God, the Father Almighty,

creator of heaven and earth.

I believe in Jesus Christ,

his Son, the Lord.

Keep going.

Does he love everyone?

Does he even love those men

on the roads outside?

God does not always

like everything we do.

That's our choice.

But he loves all his children.

Has anybody seen Edda?

Edda, the woman with the baby.

Did you see Edda with the baby?

Cause I have a medicine for the baby.

Claude, have you seen Edda or Aaron?

- They are running away.

- What?

- Where?

- Over the back field.

Edda.

Don't cry.

Don't cry.

How much pain can a human being take?

If you feel enough pain,

does everything just shut down?

Before you've done it.

I don't know, Joe.

Cause you think no one knew.

You think that it'd be something...

Something that you designed,

you know, shed or fell.

If you feel enough pain.

I hope so.

Yeah, God knows it.

Maybe we should ask him.

He's still around.

I think it's time we pack our bags.

Marie.

You'll never leave us, papa Christopher?

Terrible things may happen

in this world, Marie.

But however terrible they are,

you are in my heart.

And you will be there until I die.

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