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Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle) is a smooth and accommodating guy. Neat and trim in his habitual jacket and tie, he's a black man managing a luxury hotel in Kigali, Rwanda, a decade ago, making friends and doing favors across racial and national boundaries. He knows when an obsequious word or a proffered bottle of single-malt Scotch will do him the most good with corrupt local officialdom. And he is doing his best to ignore the rising tensions between his country's ruling Hutu tribe (of which he is a member) and the rebellious Tutsi...
...April 1994, he was manager of the luxurious Hotel Mille Collines in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. Hundreds of Tutsi civilians sought refuge inside the walls of his hotel. As genocidal Hutu extremists massed along the Mille Collines’ perimeter, Rusesabagina called for help. The US and its allies in the UN Security Council shamelessly ignored Rusesabagina’s cry. The top UN peacekeeper in Rwanda at the time, Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, recounts in his memoirs: “the people in the Mille Collines were like live bait being toyed with by a wild animal...
...Rwandan conflict, then-UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali described the situation as “Hutus killing Tutsis and Tutsis killing Hutus.” Dallaire calls this “the myth of the double genocide.” Indeed, the ethnic Tutsi rebels who liberated Kigali at the end of the civil war certainly did commit reprehensible atrocities. But Rwanda—like Darfur—was a one-sided slaughter...
...presidential and parliamentary elections. The ruling Social Democratic Party won the most votes, but not an outright majority. Prime Minister Adrian Nastase and the center-right Justice and Truth Alliance's Traian Basescu face a runoff vote for President on Dec. 12. Neighborhood Dispute DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Kigali denied reports that its troops entered eastern DRC to track down Hutu rebels involved in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, despite earlier threats to do so. Heightened tensions have raised fears of a renewed war between the two countries...
...SENTENCED. PASTEUR BIZIMUNGU, 54, Rwanda's first President after the 1994 genocide; to 15 years in jail for diverting public funds, inciting civil disobedience and associating with criminals; in Kigali, Rwanda. Bizimungu, a member of Rwanda's majority Hutu ethnic group, came to power with the Tutsi rebels who ended the extremist Hutu-led killing of an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. He quit the presidency in 2000, and was arrested after forming a political party. Defenders allege his conviction is politically motivated...