Paul Rusesabagina: o herói do Hotel Rwanda
"My name is Paul Rusesabagina. I am a hotel manager. In April 1994, when a wave of mass murder broke out in my country, I was able to hide 1,268 people inside the hotel where I worked. When the militia and the Army came with orders to kill my guests, I took them into my office, treated them like friends, offered them beer and cognac, and then persuaded them to neglect their task that day. And when they came back, I poured more drinks and kept telling them they should leave in peace once again. It went on like this for seventy-six days." ~ Paul Rusesabagina, in “An Ordinary Man” (2007) — a autobiografia do homem interpretado por Don Cheadle no filme Hotel Rwanda (2004). O actor Don Cheadle com o herói ruandês Paul Rusesabagina. Após o genocídio ruandês em que morreram e foram violadas várias centenas de milhares de pessoas no ano de 1994, Paul Rusesabagina sofreu em 1996 uma tentativa falhada de assassinato. Por isso, exilou-se primeiro na Bélgica e depois nos EUA, trabalhando...