It would be nice if you could say that events like the genocide that went on in Rwanda in 1994(which isnt that long ago. this scares me) were behind us. The sad truth is that atrocities like this are still being committed in locations around the globe, much of which we aren't even aware of(or rather shamefully, I am not aware of).

.The Rwandan genocide started sometime in 1994 as the Hutu-led Interhamwe began to slaughter the Tutsi population. what ignited this? apparently, just because tutsis were the minority. how are the tutsis distinguished? im not quite sure of this, but i remember something about how the size of their noses were different. well, truth is, the tutsis and hutus arent all that different, but rulers decided that there should be a separation. looked what happened. GENOCIDE people. close to a million people were killed! for NOTHING. i know that im not in the position to do anything about this, but it just saddens me how some ppl are born without the slightest hint of compassion.

On the other hand, we should celebrate, PAUL RUSESABAGINA. the hero amidst all this anguish. please watch hotel rwanda. it triggered so many things inside me. the movie touched me.


Paul Rusesabagina was never the most idealistic man. As manager of the Belgian-owned Mille Collines, a luxury hotel in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, he knew when to slip a bottle of Scotch to corrupt colonels to keep them in his pocket(this is how he was portrayed in the movie hotel rwanda at least). Those street smarts became his salvation when Rwanda plummeted into genocide in an event that transformed the genial businessman into an unlikely hero.

As ethnic Hutus began killing their Tutsi neighbors, Rusesabagina—a Hutu married to a Tutsi woman—turned his hotel into an impromptu refugee camp for more than a thousand terrified Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Deserted by international peacekeepers(there was that one UN colonel who was determined to help by all means tho), Rusesabagina began cashing in every favor he had ever earned, bribing the Rwandan Hutu soldiers and keeping the bloodthirsty militia (mostly) outside the gates during the hundred days of slaughter. In the end, he survived along with his wife and three children, as did most of the refugees he sheltered.

this gripping account of genocide claimed almost a MILLION lives, mainly Tutsis but also many moderate Hutus.

lets all rise to what Rusesabagina did. carrying on with his duties, brushing aside the fact that people were being chopped everywhere. he couldve saved his family and himself, no doubt. but he ended up saving more than a thousand others.




Paul Rusesabagina receiving the Immortal Chaplains Prize for Humanity from Bob Dole in 2000