Faces Of Africa - Reliving Hotel Rwanda 

They know. They don’t particularly care though.

Wow. That is sad. I also wonder some of the hutus accused may be innocent

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They just arrested him for simply talking out against the current regime. Too bad no one will do anything, this man is a hero.

@@nedger19 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eLNpSoVxOLQ.html - Who knows what the exact truth is?

What their saying was put in the movie. Idk what they talking about.

@@8213apiceit’s hatred … Africans biggest enemies are his fellow Africans

What a shame calling him a liar. Pathetic human beings

Kaykay Motlop you didn't know that?

Yes... Sad to say but its a true (reality) my dear.

ItZzKayKay Motlop how did you not know that ?

Oh yes

Was Belgium actually mad that he took money and supplies? It was anarchy and it ensured he and the rest survived. He should be promoted to CEO if anything.

True, he took their money to save them, I'll do that than have people die under my watch

Actually, i believe the people who say he didn't actually save them. Because in all accounts, he is the one who says what he did, others who were in the hotel say something different. The guy interviewed said "once you survive a genocide, all you have to do is be thankful for your life and grateful for those you have left while mourning those you lost. If you find time to start telling stories of your heroism that nobody else can bare witness to, that really questions the authenticity of your story. Even a little research on the guy will have you doubting his entire story.

@@an_angela7775well the majority say he does … except for 4 people

Not to mention that Kagame can't control all the actions of his militia. Some rogue soldiers were wanting revenge and were going to kill some innocent Hutu.

I think the overwhelming truth here is that nobody wins with civil conflict. Everyone is just left bitter, and retaliation seems justified to both parties. But in the end, everyone suffers.

You absolutely can blame him and hold him accountable. All Army commanders should be accountable for the actions of those that serve under them.

Exactly.

The problem with us black is that we are always against each other. No unity. Hope this changes one day.

MissAki1 Please don't be naive. This behavior crosses all ethnicities. We have seen this in every Continent in various times of history.

And he had to pay the militia to not kill the people staying there, so he needed money to give to the milita to protect the hotel plus he had opportunities to leave with the UN, plus he could had just paid the milita to allow him and his family to leave unbothered in one of the convey UN trucks, and just abandoned the hotel period.

It is because they don’t know how to split a continent the right way because all these ethnic groups who are in the same country as a enemy ethnic you know you did a bad job at splitting the continent correctly

They did it to themselves

so many people have gone through a lot of disturbing and painful ordeals

So sad

So sad rwanda

For you to feel grateful you had to be reminded with the hardest of hard pains and sufferings of others..eeeehhhhh...ur life really must suck!

Does it really mean "he saved" if he was denyig entrance for people who could not pay?

One things for certain those ppl who had to sit in the hallways or got to stay in a room - were there because of Paul!

@@brookemorman9999 No they weren’t. That’s what the movie script insinuates but it’s false. Most of the refugees were already sheltering in the hotel before Rusesabagina got there. Contrary to the fiction presented in the movie, he did NOT work at that hotel before the genocide. The movie falsely shows him driving around in the hotel’s van before the genocide, etc. In realty he couldn’t have because he didn’t work there. He got to that hotel a week and a half into the genocide. By that time it was already packed with genocide fugitives. What he did was to get himself temporarily appointed there and then started extorting the fugitives for everything they owned. Later, the movie simply became another way for him to continue benefitting perversely from the genocide against the Tutsi population - even as he kept denying in the media that there was such a genocide!

@@shamali2426they should’ve sat outside with the interhamwe then

Nope. There is only the truth.

Wow, I don't know 😕

@@SaharraSun Of course. But those who were there do. Did Rusesabagina “save” the people? Not according to them. Below is an account from a survivor at ‘Hotel Rwanda’, *14 years old* at the time. There are numerous others. When the genocide started on April 7th, 1994, I was in Nyamirambo with my family. On the 8th of April, it was the date when *my father and my mother were killed.* It was around 4:00pm and they were shot dead. Immediately, my brothers, my sisters and I started running for our lives hiding in the houses of our neighbors and we managed to survive. *Question: How did you reach Hotel des Mille Collines [aka “Hotel Rwanda”]?* It was in May 1994 when we got into contact with one of our friends Mr. Robert Kajuga who rescued us and took us from our neighborhood in Nyamirambo to one of the designated safe houses: Hotel des Mille Collines. We went to Mille Collines because one of our family members and some of our friends were hiding at Mille Collines and they had asked Mr. Robert Kajuga if he could let us reach Mille Collines, they could take care of us. That is how the story began about our rescue at Mille Collines. We were about 10 kids. *I was the oldest boy* in the whole group. My two siblings were the only other boys, *all others were girls.* [One of the girls was only 3 and was suffering from a serious wound from the militiamen]. After managing to enter into the parking lot, we went to the gate of the building. There, we were *stopped* by the security of the hotel, *the security of Mr. Rusesabagina* because he was apparently managing the hotel. The security was asking us: *“Who is going to pay for you”?* For them, it was not much about killing us but about how we will be able *to pay* the hotel. We said, there are family members who are coming to pay for us. They said *“no, no, until you have someone to pay for you, you are not entering into the hotel”.* It took us almost an hour. We were trying to call people inside. When we saw someone coming from inside the hotel, we asked him/her to go and see if someone we knew was inside, especially businessmen who were friends of my dad. I did not mention it but my dad was a businessman. Then Muvunyi came down, he was like an uncle. He said to the security guards that he will pay everything for all those kids. *He was asked to write a paper and to provide a written guaranty* that he will pay for us. *He paid money for us* to be able to get into Mille Collines. *Question: Did you know Rusesabagina before the genocide?* No. I never heard about him before. When we were at the entrance of the building, *we saw the boss of the security who did not let us go in. That is how I saw the person [Rusesabagina]* but I did not know his name. I came to know his name after. My only concern that time was to be rescued and to enter the hotel. I did not know Rusesabagina before getting into Hotel des Mille Collines. *Question: Did you ever get the feeling that you might die during your stay in the Mille Collines Hotel?* Yes, I think I could have been killed in Mille Collines because of that situation that we were stopped at the gate of the hotel and at the entrance of the hotel building I thought that everything could be possible including dying at the hotel. Plus knowing what was happening outside of the hotel during the genocide, I was worried that I could be killed because of what I saw at the hotel. Everything was based on money; *if you could not pay,* they could even throw you out and Interahamwe [the genocide militia] would kill you. Yeah, I thought it could be possible to die. *Question: How did you find the film Hotel Rwanda?* There is no grain of truth in that film *nobody ever performed those acts of personal sacrifice. Certainly not Rusesabagina.* I cannot honestly subscribe to what is contained in that film. For us who came in mid-May, we had to beg to enter into the hotel. That was the first thing. The second thing was that we had to pay the money, actually we had to pay for our life. If you are a human being, you’d say that that money is *not necessary for kids* I can still save people. But the guy made it for his own. Actually let me call it in this way: During the genocide *Mr. Rusesabagina found a way of creating business* of his own because he was making us pay money and he took all that money. People had to pay to come in the hotel. *He refused to give us water.* We had to drink water from the swimming pool. There was *not any effort from him to go outside and bring something for us.* The *food* we ate was coming *from the hotel’s existing stock* and people [still] had to pay money. When you watch the film it is like he went out and helped families to get into the hotel. No. *He was at the gate of the hotel asking for money* before he let them come in. For me there is no truth behind the film. We had to pay money to enter into the hotel. *The protection we had was because the MINUAR [UN military force] was there.* Rusesabagina put me down at 14 years old. *He asked children to pay to enter into the hotel.* He is not a hero. [From: “What really took place at Hotel des Mille Collines”, May 2020]

It does matter that he made people pay.

@@mariasimone4141how so ?

why not? If you've got your $1,000 for a seat, you could be sitting nose-to-nose with him in a San Antonio conference hall tomorrow morning. He’ll be delivering his speech there. Here’s their ad: “Join us for the Opening Breakfast Ceremony as we celebrate the commencement of DreamWeek 2020. This year’s theme is A Collective Vision. The ceremony will feature opening remarks from *Mayor Ron Nirenberg,* a presentation by keynote speaker, *Paul Rusesabagina,* San Antonio Poet Laureate Octavio Quintanilla, and a short presentation from DreamWeek Founder Shokare Nakpodia. *Paul Rusesabagina* is a Rwandan humanitarian [lol!!] who, while working as a house manager at the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali, hid and protected 1,268 Hutu and Tutsi refugees. @ Jack Guenther Pavilion 210 W Market Street San Antonio, TX When: Fri., Jan. 10, 2020; 7:30-9 a.m. Price: $65 - $1000 Buy Tickets”

shamali What the hate? The world owes this man and others who stepped in to save the lives of their people. Heroism can be contagious.

@@JesseWorld1000 No hate but he saved no one. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SL14tZ8vYxY.html

He is now a prisoner in Rwanda.

@@richhaller7508not anymore

It was protected for several reasons. First it was the property of the flag carrier of the Kingdom of Belgium, a major worldwide airline company called Sabena. For this reason, both the company and the Belgian govt had interest to make sure nothing would happen to the hotel and that it wouldn’t be turned into a mass-murder site. Second, the UN still had a military presence in Rwanda. That hotel was one of its bases. Its communication equipment was installed there and UN military personnel were always present at the hotel. Third, throughout the genocide there were visits by senior diplomats and officials from powerful countries and organizations, such as France and various UN agencies. That hotel was their transit point. You can watch several such visits right here on youtube. And you’re able to do so because foreign news reporters were also there to film those events. That’s a 4th reason why the hotel was protected. No one wanted to commit mass murder straight in front of international news cameras. A 5th reason is that the forces fighting the genocide (the RPA) had some people in their custody that the genocidaires wanted turned over to them. The genocidaires needed the refugees at that hotel alive as bargaining chips to be exchanged for the ones they wanted turned over to them. They also felt they could showcase the living refugees to visiting foreign officials as ‘proof’ that they weren’t killing Tutsi people after all. That’s why this hotel was considered a protected hotel.

Are you Rwandan? How is the situation over there now Are there still bad blood btwn hutus and tutsis

They didn’t want him because he had disobeyed them. They had told him not to charge ray fujeez for hiding out in the hotel, but he still squeezed all the cash he could out of the hapless fugitives.

STFU...!

Why should he? He's been attacked and called a liar for doing the best he humanly could during an awful time. He lives in exile and Belgium don't give a single fuck about him for making them look good. I don't blame him for being the way he is now.

but why should the Hutu rebels have argued with him, when the killed everyone else and just stole whatever money they had? I honestly find that hard to believe

You must be stupid

Naaaaah, TRUTH