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The movie Hotel Rwanda depicts the Rwandan genocide of 1994 where an estimated 1 million Rwandans, mostly Tutsis and moderate Hutus, were killed by Hutu militias over the course of 100 days. The film tells the true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a Hutu hotel manager who sheltered over 1,200 refugees at the Hotel des Mille Collines and protected them from the militias. Despite threats, Rusesabagina ensured the refugees' safety through bribery and diplomacy. The genocide ended when Tutsi rebels drove out the Hutu militias into the Congo, but left behind nearly 1 million corpses. Rusesabagina and his family now

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Watch Hotel Rwanda: Genocide Story

The movie Hotel Rwanda depicts the Rwandan genocide of 1994 where an estimated 1 million Rwandans, mostly Tutsis and moderate Hutus, were killed by Hutu militias over the course of 100 days. The film tells the true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a Hutu hotel manager who sheltered over 1,200 refugees at the Hotel des Mille Collines and protected them from the militias. Despite threats, Rusesabagina ensured the refugees' safety through bribery and diplomacy. The genocide ended when Tutsi rebels drove out the Hutu militias into the Congo, but left behind nearly 1 million corpses. Rusesabagina and his family now

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Hotel Rwanda- Rwandan genocide

The movie Hotel Rwanda is a screening that commemorates the tragic events of the genocide in
Rwanda. An estimated 1,000,000 Rwandans were killed. The film presents the story of Paul
Rusesabagina who protected 1,268 Hutu and Tutsi refugees from the Interahamwe militia during the
Rwandan genocide.
The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, was a mass slaughter of Tutsi,
Twa, and moderate Hutu in Rwanda, which took place between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the
Rwandan Civil War. Assassination of Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana on 6 April 1994
ended peace accords. Genocidal killings began the following day when soldiers, police, and militia
executed key Tutsi and moderate Hutu military and political leaders. Most of the victims were killed
in their own villages or in towns, often by their neighbors and fellow villagers. Local officials and
government-sponsored radio incited ordinary citizens to kill their neighbors, and those who refused to
kill were often murdered on the spot: "Either you took part in the massacres or you were massacred
yourself."
„Stay alert. Watch your neighbours.”
Paul Rusesabagina work in the genocide is dramatized in the 2004 movie Hotel Rwanda in which he
is played by Don Cheadle. "Hotel Rwanda" is a true story, the hero of which is Paul, a hotel manager
in Rwanda, who uses his courage to shelter over a thousand refugees. None of those refugees were
hurt or killed during the attacks. Though Rusesabagina was Hutu (his father was Hutu and his mother
Tutsi), his wife Tatiana was a Tutsi and his children considered mixed. Due to this, he was unable to
escape from the war zone with his family.
When the violence broke out, Rusesabagina brought his family to the Hôtel des Mille Collines for
safety. As other managers departed, Rusesabagina phoned the hotel's corporate owners, Sabena, and
secured a letter appointing him the acting general manager of the Mille Collines. When a murderous
Hutu militia threatened to enter the Mille Collines, Rusesabagina ensured that his wife and children
fled safely in a truck that left for Kigali airport to flee to another country. He stayed in the hotel to
take care of the refugees. Tatiana and her children were specifically targeted within the convoy by
radio messages, and returned to the hotel after being attacked.
The Interahamwe left nearly 1 million corpses behind. Tutsi rebels pushed the Hutu militia into the
Congo in July 1994, after over half of the Tutsis in Rwanda had been murdered. Rusesabagina took
orphans from the camp behind Tutsi rebel lines with him to Tanzania, to keep them safe and away
from Rwanda.
At the end of the film, there are mentioned aspects that relate to how things after the events in the
film. „Paul and Tatiana now live in Belgium with their children, Roger, Diane, Lys, Tresor and their
adopted nieces Anais and Carine. Tatiana’s brother Thomas and his wife Fedens were never found.
Genocide ended in July 1994, when the Tutsi rebels drove the Hutu army and the Interhamwe militia
across the border into the Congo. They left behind almost a million corpses.”
This film is meant to show us the atrocities of people because of racial and political issues and how
innocent people have suffered.
“How can they not intervene when they witness such atrocities?”
“I think if people see this footage they’ll say “Oh my God that’s horrible”, and then go on eating
their dinners.”

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