CHAPTER SEVEN
Strengthen Your Own Secure Bases
In his own words, Paul Rusesabagina was “an ordinary man”—a quiet manager of a luxury hotel in his native Rwanda.
But in the face of the genocide that all but destroyed his country, Paul became a hero to the 1,268 Tutsis and moderate Hutus he sheltered from the Interahamwe Militia at the Hôtel des Mille Collines. For three months, he used his influence and connections as acting manager to keep these lucky ones safe.
On April 6, 1994, mobs with machetes began the slaughter of 800,000 civilians in just 100 days. When the killing started, people turned up at Paul’s home. “Why they thought I might be able to protect them was beyond me but it was my house they flocked to. We put the visitors up in the ...
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