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That's wonderful news!

No, it’s not. The guy was an opportunist who collaborated with the perpetrators of the genocide, and since has been paid to say it didn’t happen.

That's quite a claim. Have you got a source on that?

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Read the book "Inside the Hotel Rwanda." The movie is a complete work of fiction

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There's a good NYT article on it https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/magazine/he-was-the-hero-of-hotel-rwanda-now-hes-accused-of-terrorism.html

It comes to no conclusions but it lays out the evidence. The journalist who wrote it stayed at the hotel during the genocide.

He saved a lot of lives, sad you want him in prison for that

I’ve provided sources in another comment, he only saved those people because he could make money off of them

You believe what you want to believe

Oh. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

Wouldn’t that put him in line with doctors and surgeons?

I was at the Genocide memorial and museum in Kigali a week and a half ago. His name never appears once and I don't remember seeing the hotel's name either.

That should give you a good idea of who he is.

What a roller coaster

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Doctors and surgeons don’t deny the existence of cancer

There’s proof, dude.

Baseless accusations.

That wouldn’t necessarily say anything, considering the Rwandan government doesn’t like him whatsoever.

Dude, theres a book by one of the people he supposedly protected

There are a lot of books, anything you want can go in a book

BY ONE OF THE PEOPLE HE SUPPOSEDLY PROTECTED

That lends a LOT of credence to the accusations

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I'm afraid this article raised a hell of a lot more questions and suspicion of both sides than answers. It is not surprising that the aftermath of such a genocide is incredibly messy and filled with deceitful ambition and political motivation that it is hard to draw any conclusion of it. That was a roller-coaster of a read.

Non-paywall link here

TIL Paul Kagame is still president of Rwanda. He's been in power for 29 years.

I'm sure they don't care why their lives were saved.

Kagame is a power-hungry tyrant.

They literally do, one of them wrote a book about it

That doesn’t change that this “hero” is an opportunist scumbag

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I attended a talk he gave here (15?) Or so years ago. He went over the movie events, admitted to how much of it was fiction (a substantial amount) , also gave more details into some of the events as well from his perspective.

I did find it very informative, and a lot more humble than I expected. However when he finished with a question/answers period there were some Rwandans in the audience who were present for the genocide who had a lot of questions for him. He refused to answer any of them and walked out.

For those unaware, Rwanda after the genocide has largely been dominated by Paul Kagame (a Tutsi guerrilla leader during the genocide). Kagame has been President of Rwanda for over twenty years.

Paul Rusesabagina has been a critic of Kagame and his government since 1996, when he came to see Kagame’s government as very similar to the Hutu dominated government that had carried out the genocide.

Rusesabagina has made statements that border on conspiracy theories involving the RPF (Kagame’s guerrilla movement and later political party) and its responsibility for the genocide.

Short story: Rusesabagina opposed the genocide by his Hutus, but he also opposed militant actions by Tutsi that were aggravating ethnic tensions in Rwanda.

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