HOTEL RWANDA: Notes
According to a Reuters report, Rwanda’s current Tutsi president Paul Kagame, who led the country’s counter takeover to end the genocide, accused Hotel Rwanda (above) of depicting a "falsehood," adding, "Some of the things actually attributed to this person [Paul Rusesabagina, played by Don Cheadle, right, with Sophie Okonedo] are not true. Even those that are true do not merit the level of highlight."
A recent French official report, extracts of which were published in Le Monde, blamed Kagame for the downing of President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane in 1994. That event was the spark that led to the murder orgy that left between 800,000 and one million Rwandans, mostly Tutsis, dead. The Rwanda government, now in the hands of the [...]
by Andre Soares | November 21, 2004
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Tags: Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina, Politics, Rwanda, Sophie Okonedo
