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Murder is exciting, murder fascinates, murder thrills. In Martin Scorsese's mafia films we wait spellbound for the next brutal crime, in Quentin Tarantino´s films we laugh heartily at bloody orgies of violence. In a macabre way, we can't get enough of murder.
 But we are so afraid of death. Or is our unrestrained voyerism based on a defense mechanism that can be explained psychologically? Rwanda 1994. Over 800,000 people are murdered within six weeks. Huge mass graves, memorials made of skulls. The images are cruel. I can turn them off, the Rwandan people will never be able to. The terrorist attacks in Hanau, Hesse, on Wednesday killed nine people. "Nine, that's not 800,000," some might think. But it's not about the numbers, it's about the motive.
 The motive was hate, hate for the supposed stranger.
 Hatred is stirred up and has many causes. Again and again this terrible potential of humans is used as a means to achieve political goals.
 But n...

The genocide in Rwanda in spring 1994 is one of the most serious crimes in human history. Within only six weeks, almost one million people were murdered, no, slaughtered. The genocide was the culmination of a hundred years of conflict between the Hutu and Tutsi. Put simply, the Tutsi aristocracy traditionally ruled and let the Hutu work for them. But it was only later that the two large population strata of Rwanda were classified as ethnically different population groups.
In 1897, Rwanda was colonized, and by Germany of all countries. From 1916 to 1962 Belgium took control. Rwanda then became independent, well, more or less independent. Because the influence of the former colonial masters continued in a devastating way. In summary, the genocide of the Tutsis and moderate Hutu was mainly due to the preference of the already privileged Tutsis by the European colonial rulers. But other African countries, interest groups and former colonial powers were also involved in the genocide. ...

A comment on “H is for Happiness” There would not be a better way to kick off this year’s Generation than with a film called “H is for Happiness” – I think while I’m waiting in front of the movie theatre, expecting an easy and cheerfull comedy. But after the last scene of the film has passed, I’m just surprised and touched by a deep film with quite an important message. "H is for Happiness" tells the story of twelve-year-old Candice Chee (Daisy Axon), who lives with mother and father in a small town in Western Australia. You’re realizing soon that the background of Candice, who’s clever, always happy and alert, isn’t that colorful and bright as the first minutes of the film. Since her little sister died of an illness Candice’s mother has been suffering from depression; her father – who had a financial dispute with his brother, called “Rich Uncle Brian” by Candice, spends most of the day isolated from his family in his garage working on new computer programs, and Candice ...