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A paperback novel published by Newmarket Press, titled Hotel Rwanda: Bringing the True Story of an African Hero to Film, released on 7 February 2005, dramatizes the events of the Rwandan Genocide in 1994, as depicted in the film, and expands on the ideas of how Rusesabagina sheltered and saved more than 1,200 people in the hotel he managed in ...
Paul Rusesabagina (Kinyarwanda: [ɾusesɑβaɟinɑ]; [3] [4] born 15 June 1954) is a Rwandan human rights activist. He worked as the manager of the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali, during a period in which it housed 1,268 Hutu and Tutsi refugees fleeing the Interahamwe militia during the Rwandan genocide. [5]
In Rwanda’s high court, Paul Rusesabagina, 67, was tried along with a group of 20 other defendants on a slew of charges including including forming an illegal armed group, financing a terrorist ...
The story centers around Augustin Muganza, a Hutu who struggles to find closure after bearing witness to the killing of nearly 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 100 days, while becoming divided by politics and losing some of their own family. The plot intersperses between the genocide in 1994, and April 2004, when Augustin is invited by ...
Rusesabagina - who was depicted in the Hollywood movie ‘Hotel Rwanda’ for his role saving Tutsis from the 1994 Rwandan genocide - suddenly appeared in custody in his home country earlier this ...
Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed as a hero in a Hollywood movie about Rwanda's 1994 genocide, declined to plead on Monday to all the 13 charges facing him, demanding he be allowed to plead to each ...
Paul Rusesabagina, whose story inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda,” was in court on Monday, where he declined to plead to the 13 charges facing him. Rusesabagina, who once called for armed ...
The Rwandan government announced Friday that Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the acclaimed 2004 film "Hotel Rwanda," will be released from prison nearly three years after he was captured and detained.