Paul Rusesabagina
Paul Rusesabagina
Paul Rusesabaginais a Rwandan humanitarian who, while working as a hotel manager at the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali, Rwanda, hid and protected 1,268 Hutu and Tutsi refugees from the interahamwe militia during the Rwandan Genocide. None of those refugees were hurt or killed during the attacks...
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We saw the whole world closing their eyes and ears, leaving us alone to thugs and gangsters. The genocide took away a million people in a 100 days.
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YOU have to make them feel ashamed to the point that they start to help us!
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We sat down in the ruins and we cried. The trip opened my eyes, it was very influential, ... Since then I've decided never to fight with a gun but with my mouth.
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I told them that if I am with you, I'll always regret what I've done and I don't ever want to regret,
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For five minutes I was speechless, ... Then I told them that I didn't know how to use this gun, but even if I did I wouldn't kill these people
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The world ignored Rwanda when we really needed it. Unfortunately, even now the world is still ignoring us.
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Talking about it is a relief. My message: Take Rwanda as a wake-up call. We need to stop the killing. The best solution is to talk and share. We ask the (United States) administration to intervene.
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The most abusive words that I hear are 'never again,' ... Have we learned from history? I do not know.
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The whole country was smelling of dead bodies, flies. I went to see family. My mother-in-law was dead, her six children killed,
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Africa needs you, ... to break out a dialogue. I'm telling you this because you in the West are lucky, you vote for your own leaders.
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Ladies and gentlemen, history keeps repeating itself but doesn't teach us any lessons. 'Never again' has turned into 'again and again and again.' So tonight, ladies and gentlemen, take Hotel Rwanda as a wake-up call and a message to be our messenger that people are the ones who can change what they want to change.
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I said, 'I'm not coming with you, because so far I'm the only person who can negotiate with the killers,
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If people see this footage, they'll say, 'Oh my God, that's terrible,' and they'll go on eating their dinners,
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I am nothing special. Paul was a hotel manager. He will remain a hotel manager to the end.