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Rwanda. France. United States. Languages. English. Kinyarwanda. Sometimes in April is a 2005 American made-for-television historical drama film about the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, written and directed by the Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck. The ensemble cast includes Idris Elba, Oris Erhuero, Carole Karemera, and Debra Winger.
Box office. $33.9 million [4] Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 docudrama film co-written and directed by Terry George. It was adapted from a screenplay by George and Keir Pearson, and stars Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo as hotelier Paul Rusesabagina and his wife Tatiana. Based on the Rwandan genocide, which occurred during the spring of 1994, the film ...
e. On the evening of 6 April 1994, the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira, both Hutu, was shot down with surface-to-air missiles as their jet prepared to land in Kigali, Rwanda; both were killed. The assassination set in motion the Rwandan genocide, one of the bloodiest events of ...
KIGALI (Reuters) -A Rwandan court on Monday sentenced Paul Rusesabagina, a one-time hotel manager portrayed as a hero in a Hollywood film about the 1994 genocide, to 25 years in prison after he ...
Left to Tell: One Woman's Story of Surviving the Rwandan Holocaust (2006). An account of the Rwandan genocide by the author Immaculee Ilibagiza. She was a Tutsi whose family were murdered when the Hutu nationalists ran riot throughout the country killing men, women, the elderly, and children. This book tells her story.
Rusesabagina, 68, has been moved to the Qatari embassy in Rwanda, accompanied by a U.S. embassy official. He is expected to leave… Paul Rusesabagina of ‘Hotel Rwanda’ fame released from prison
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] None of these refugees were hurt ...
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 ...