António Vieira da Cruz

"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...

Author: Wali-ur Rahman Publisher: Bangladesh Heritage Foundation Place: Dhaka, Bangladesh Year: 2011 181 pages If someone ever asks me how to understand Bangladesh better, my advice is: start by studying its International Crimes Tribunal. I would say this is perhaps the best way to know about Bangladesh contemporary history and politics. That is what happened with me. The International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh tells us a lot about the country’s past and present; about its independence; about its cultural, ethnic and political tensions; and about its struggle to find justice, peace and prosperity. The book “Forgotten War: Forgotten Genocide” was written in 2011 by my good friend H.E. Ambassador Wali-ur Rahman and it is an ideal tool to understand everything about these issues. From 1947 to 1971 Bangladesh was part of Pakistan and before it was under the British Raj. Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had a very different culture and language than West Pakistan, whic...