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Were we supposed to know the reason for the attack?

posted 8 years ago by Hanz-Willhelm2
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When we have this little village full of children, people just going about their lives, farming, going to school and then a mob of soldiers just show up and blow up half of the place, killing people indiscriminately, for sport apparently kidnap some and off they go.

Well of course they are the villains and we are rooting for their deaths but was there supposed to be a reason for them to just wipe out a village? Had the village wronged the soldiers in the past, what the heck was that all about?

Was ist der Sinn des Lebens?

[–] barttp 8 years ago

The exposition at the beginning of the movie tells us : "The Karen people, comprised mostly of poor Christian farmers, have been singled out for extermination."

Then, when Michael asks Rambo for help and Rambo says that Burma is a war zone, Michael answers: "Well, that's what people call it, but it's more like genocide than war."

So, that's basically it. They are being killed because they are Karen people. I don't really know the background of this Burmese civil war, but such stories are not uncommon. Hitler was killing Jews just because they were Jews.. looks like here we have a similar case.