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  IGN: Interview: Don Cheadle and Paul Rusesabagina
The story of Paul Rusesabagina and his incredible and brave struggle to save as many as he could from the massacres in Rwanda is one that many are unfamiliar with.
Paul Rusesabagina was a diplomat and the former proprietor of the Milles Collines in Rwanda.
Cheadle as Rusesabagina with Sophie Okonedo as Tatiana
movies.ign.com /articles/574/574554p1.html   (1023 words)

  
 Rusesabagina
According to Rusesabagina, one of the foreign authorities called from the hotel was the Director General of the French Foreign Ministry.
Paul Rusesabagina was the manager of the Hotel Milles Collines during the first week of genocide, and he is one such.
Mr Rusesabagina would then stay up until four in the morning using the one phone line which the Hutu Power authorities had not managed to cut off as they did not know its number, sending faxes to Bill Clinton, ringing the French Foreign Ministry, ringing the King of Belgium, telling them what was going on.
www.immortalchaplains.org /Prize/Ceremony2000/Rusesabagina/rusesabagina.htm   (1548 words)

  
 The Tartan Online : Paul Rusesabagina explains Hotel Rwanda
Rusesabagina was brought to the University of Pittsburgh campus by groups united in combating global inequality: the Hillel Jewish University Center, the Black Action Society, Amnesty International, the African Student Organization, and the Ford Institute for Human Protection.
Rusesabagina (pronounced roo-sess-ah-bog-ee-nah) has gained notoriety for escaping a situation that, when it was occurring, hardly received any attention at all.
Rusesabagina lived a peaceful life with his wife and three children amid the political turmoil that was ravaging their homeland.
thetartan.org /2005/12/5/pillbox/hotelrwanda   (656 words)

  
 The religion of Paul Rusesabagina, Rwandan mass killer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Paul Rusesabagina was the hotel assistant manager who sheltered over 1,200 Tutsis and moderate Hutus from being slaughtered by the Interahamwe militia during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Paul Rusesabagina's heroic actions were directly responsible for saving hundreds of lives, at considerable risk to his own life.
Paul Rusesabagina was a Seventh-day Adventist, and his humanitarian actions reflected the teachings and strong emphasis on ethical living espoused by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
www.adherents.com /people/pr/Paul_Rusesabagina.html   (144 words)

  
 The Movie Chicks - Interview - Terry George and Paul Rusesabagina
Paul: When he was cast, he immediately got in touch with me. We corresponded through e-mail.
Paul: My elder children are grownups - my daughter was 16 during the genocide, her brother was 12.
The river road scene with the dead bodies never happened to Paul, but he had talked to me about seeing bodies afterwards, and I needed at that point to take the audience right into the middle of the heart of darkness of the genocide when it was at its worst.
www.themoviechicks.com /fall2004/mcthotelrwanda.html   (1265 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Rusesabagina fears Rwanda's backlash
Paul Rusesabagina — often referred to as the Oskar Schindler of Africa — was a witness to numerous killings as homicidal mobs cut thousands of people into pieces with machetes.
Rusesabagina, whose accent is very thick, said that he has discovered that "speaking out" has caused the Rwandan government to worry about him.
Rusesabagina and his family miraculously lived through the wholesale butchering of friends and loved ones, so now they are practicing some therapy of their own.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,635201512,00.html   (661 words)

  
 Paul Rusesabagina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Rusesabagina's Louisville visit is sponsored by the UPS Foundation and the Library Foundation.
Rusesabagina devotes much of his time raising awareness of the 1994 Rwandan genocide and, more importantly, the ongoing tragedies occurring in Sudan and the Congo.
The movie tells the gripping story of Rusesabagina's efforts to keep his family and neighbors safe in the midst of rising tensions in 1994 between his fellow Rwandans, which culminated in one of the bloodiest genocides in African history.
www.lfpl.org /includes/SpecialAnnouncements/PaulRusesabagina.htm   (199 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- Rusesabagina's list
Rusesabagina cleaned up the Mille Collines and went back to his previous job running the nearby Diplomat Hotel until 1996 when political death threats forced him to flee with his wife, four children and two orphaned nieces to Brussels, where they still live.
Rusesabagina did not step foot again in Rwanda until February 2003, when he embarked on a research mission with Terry George, the director, producer and co-writer of "Hotel Rwanda." George wanted to understand the roots of the genocide – a key instigator in the film is a hate-spewing propagandist radio station.
Although the film doesn't elaborate, Rusesabagina said his son, who was really 14 at the time, had walked in on his friend and eight other dead or dying neighbors, all who had been viciously attacked in the house.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20050102-9999-m1a2rwanda.html   (1539 words)

  
 Facing History and Ourselves - Paul Rusesabagina and the Rwandan Genocide
During the Rwandan genocide Rusesabagina risked his life and the lives of his family to turn the Milles Collines Hotel into a sanctuary that saved 1,268 men, women and children from the fate of almost one million of their Tutsi neighbors who were killed.
Rusesabagina’s overall message to the students was to always be yourself, emphasizing that he was and is a hotel manager before, during and after the genocide.
Rusesabagina, who is involved in a charitable organization aiding survivors of the Rwandan tragedy, continues to speak out about the genocide that is currently occurring in Sudan.
www.facinghistory.org /Campus/reslib.nsf/searchspecial/08BDC479D7E467208525718100699B85?Opendocument   (602 words)

  
 The Peace Abbey - Awakening Awareness to Genocide
Rusesabagina, the hero now portrayed by actor Don Cheadle in the movie "Hotel Rwanda," stopped in Sherborn last night on his way to Los Angeles for Sunday night's Academy Awards ceremony.
Rusesabagina, who also spoke to reporters yesterday morning at the Newton Sheraton Hotel, sat close to his wife last night at the Peace Abbey in Sherborn and called upon people to stand up to the African dictators overseeing campaigns of genocide.
The Rusesabaginas were presented with The Peace Abbey's Courage of Conscience Award last week in Sherborn for their efforts to shelter more than 1,200 people fleeing the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
www.peaceabbey.org /awards/rusesabagina.htm   (1292 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind 'Hotel Rwanda': Books: Paul Rusesabagina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Rusesabagina discusses the racial complexity within his own life - he is a Hutu married to a Tutsi - and his complete estrangement from the madness that surrounded him during the genocide.
Paul Rusesabagina starts his moving account of that bloody spring in 1994 with a brief overview of Rwandese history, the impact of colonialism, and the dynamic of the hutu-tutsi coexistence which has been typical of the Rwandese social fabric.
Paul Rusesabagina is a great man have no doubts, he humbly rejects the title of hero but really there is no clearer definition than this account of a mans stand against insanity.
www.amazon.co.uk /Ordinary-Man-Story-Behind-Rwanda/dp/0747583048   (1841 words)

  
 Paul Rusesabagina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Rusesabagina (born June 15, 1954) is a Rwandan who has been internationally honoured for his actions during the Rwandan Genocide.
Rusesabagina was born in Murama-Gitarama in the Central-South region of Rwanda to a farming family.
Tatiana Rusesabagina wasn't really angry about Paul putting her and her children on a truck to escape the Mille Collines hotel, but was more or less sad about the decision which she accepted owing to the circumstances.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Rusesabagina   (1321 words)

  
 Life in a Northern town: Meet the hero   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Rusesabagina is now a business man, the owner of a trucking company in Africa.
Rusesabagina, of course, brushes off the notion that he's a hero, that he was simply a hotel manager doing his job.
Paul was generous in answering questions that ranged in topics from how the media should cover events in Africa to whether or not he chose Don Cheadle to play him in the movie.
www.readjulia.com /life/archives/2005/10/about_the_lost.html   (898 words)

  
 The Paul Rusesabagina Picture Pages
Paul Rusesabagina (born June 15, 1955 in Murama-Gitarama, Rwanda) was the assistant manager of the Hotel des Mille Collines, and later the manager of the Hôtel des Diplomates, both in Kigali, Rwanda.
Rusesabagina was born in Murama-Gitarama in the Central-South region of Rwanda.
Though Rusesabagina was a Hutu, and therefore safe from the Interahamwe, his wife Tatiana was a Tutsi, and their children were of mixed heritage; therefore he could not escape the war zone with his family without outside help.
www.superiorpics.com /paul_rusesabagina   (337 words)

  
 UCD News
Rusesabagina’s humanitarian actions during the genocide were dramatised in the Academy Award-nominated film, Hotel Rwanda, starring Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, and Nick Nolte.
Rusesabagina was born in 1954, at Murama-Gitarama in the central-south of Rwanda.
Back from Switzerland, Rusesabagina joined Sabena Hotels again and was employed as assistant general manager in the Mille Collines Hotel from October 1984 until November 1992, at which time he was promoted to general manager of the Diplomate Hotel (also in Kigali).
www.ucd.ie /news/jun06/020606_paul_rusesabagina.htm   (575 words)

  
 Genocide continues, Hotel Rwanda hero warns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
So Paul Rusesabagina is taking his message on tour to young people, who he feels are the ones who can make changes.
Rusesabagina doubted that if 4.5 million Canadians were slaughtered in 100 days that rich countries would also stand idle.
Rusesabagina said the key to changing the African situation is to first recognize the current power structures: Most governments there are corrupt dictatorships.
www.canada.com /montrealgazette/news/montreal/story.html?id=120b5a0d-fc8a-495f-bc31-48d8482d13ab&k=25942   (561 words)

  
 Paul Rusesabagina Convocation
Paul Rusesabagina's story is told in the movie Hotel Rwanda.
Over the course of 100 days nearly one million people were killed in Rwanda; Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, used his courage to shelter more than a thousand refugees from certain death.
Rusesabagina has traveled the world telling his story and carrying a message of hope, peace and "never again." He has founded the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation (HRRF), which provides support, care and assistance to children orphaned by and women abused during the genocide in Rwanda.
www.denison.edu /publicaffairs/pressreleases/rusesabagina_3-06.html   (373 words)

  
 December 2004 | blackfilm.com | features | interview | Director Terry George and Paul Rusesabagina
When he heard met Paul Rusesabagina and heard his story, he wrote the story that is generating lots of buzz as the best picture.
I met up with him, and after meeting him I flew to Brussels and met with Paul, and then brought him back to Long Island, which is what he talked about when we sat down, and put the story together, or put the basis of the treatment for it.
Then when I returned with Paul to Rwanda, when he went back there to the first time, the impact of that visit was overwhelming to me. Particularly a journey we made to a genocide memorial site called Murambi in Southern Rwanda.
www.blackfilm.com /20041217/features/terryandpaul.shtml   (3439 words)

  
 Bookreporter.com - AN ORDINARY MAN: An Autobiography by Paul Rusesabagina
According to Paul Rusesabagina, there was nothing extraordinary about his actions during the Rwandan genocides in 1994.
Currently, the Rusesabaginas live in Belgium and are doing their best to move past the indescribable horrors they witnessed in 1994.
Perhaps the most astonishing gift that Rusesabagina has to offer should not be described as heroism, but instead as a gentle willingness to do what's right in the face of grave danger and a refusal to forgo the pursuit of goodness when presented with an easier way out.
www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/0670037524.asp   (634 words)

  
 Paul Rusesabagina to Speak at UW-Eau Claire
Paul Rusesabagina was a hotel manager who sheltered 1,200 refugees from certain death.
"Paul is a mild-mannered man, sturdily built and rather ordinary looking — a bourgeois hotel manager, after all — and that is how he seemed to regard himself as well, as an ordinary person who did nothing extraordinary in refusing to cave in to the insanity that swirled around him.
Rusesabagina's personal mission to educate people on the lessons of Rwanda has transformed into an international crusade to end genocide in all nations.
www.uwec.edu /newsreleases/05/oct/1024Rusesabagina.htm   (992 words)

  
 "Hotel Rwanda" - Newsday.com
Even as the Tutsi bodies clog the Kigali roads and the UN turns deaf to the singing of the Hutu machetes being resharpened, Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle) ties a rich, silk foulard around his neck of his starched white shirt, dons a tailored suit jacket and gets back to work.
Paul, the faithful, expert employee of the Belgian hotel, believed he was part of the great white world.
Of course, he does have Cheadle: As Rusesabagina, a man who turns the diplomatic skills of a concierge into the tools of a warrior, the actor surpasses even himself -- and he already was, unquestionably, one of the best actors on screen.
newsday.com /entertainment/movies/ny-ethotel1222,0,2671114.story?...   (473 words)

  
 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients
Paul Harvey is one of America's most respected radio personalities and has set a standard of excellence for broadcasters.
Paul Rusesabagina demonstrated courage and compassion by sheltering people at the hotel he managed during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Rusesabagina's selfless acts have inspired millions, and he represents the best of the human spirit.
www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2005/11/20051103-5.html   (637 words)

  
 Cornell News: Real-life Hotel Rwanda hero
Paul Rusesabagina, the real-life hero whose story is told in the film "Hotel Rwanda," is surrounded by a crowd of admirers following his talk April 20 in Statler auditorium.
Rusesabagina, who sheltered more than a thousand refugees in a hotel he managed during the 1994 slaughter of millions of Tutsu Rwandese, now works to prevent future genocides in Africa.
But Rusesabagina insisted that he was merely "a normal person who tried to remain who he was -- a hotel manager" -- during the slaughter.
www.news.cornell.edu /stories/April05/Rwanda.hero.cover.lm.html   (518 words)

  
 RadioFree.com Interviews: Paul Rusesabagina, Hotel Rwanda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Tensions between the Hutu and the Tutsi, two Rwandan social factions, had set the stage for a bloody genocide, and nearly 1,000,000 people were killed in the span of 100 days while most of the world stood by and did little to intervene.
Armed with a first hand account of history as it unfolded, Paul took the time to speak with us about the events depicted in the movie, the international response to Rwanda, and his role in this chaotic time, about which he is extraordinarily humble.
Paul currently lives in Belgium with his wife, Tatiana, and their family.
movies.radiofree.com /interviews/hotelrwa_paul_rusesabagina.shtml   (1206 words)

  
 Cornell News: Paul Rusesabagina to lecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Rusesabagina's visit will be accompanied by three screenings of "Hotel Rwanda" at Cornell Cinema in the Willard Straight Theatre, with a free screening Saturday, April 16, at 7:15 p.m.
In 1994 Rusesabagina, a Hutu manager of a luxury hotel in Rwanda, saved the lives of more than 1,200 people, including his own Tutsi wife and children, as more than 800,000 members of the Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred in just 100 days.
Rusesabagina's story and that of the Rwandan genocide is chronicled in "Hotel Rwanda," a riveting account of a man finding courage within himself to save others as the world turned its back on them.
www.news.cornell.edu /stories/April05/hotelrwanda.fac.html   (229 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Bush meets with 'Hotel Rwanda' manager   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager portrayed in the movie Hotel Rwanda, told President Bush on Thursday that the situation in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region mirrors the genocide he survived in Rwanda a decade ago.
Rusesabagina, who now runs a heavy-duty transport business in Zambia, hid 1,268 people in the hotel he was managing to keep them safe from Hutu extremist militias and soldiers who killed more than 500,000 minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus in 1994.
Rusesabagina recently went to Darfur with a delegation that included five U.S. congressmen and actor Don Cheadle, who portrays him in Hotel Rwanda.
www.usatoday.com /life/people/2005-02-17-bush-rwanda_x.htm   (435 words)

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