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class="vector-toc-link" href="#Awards"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.2 Awards </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Awards-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Speaking_career" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Speaking_career"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.3 Speaking career </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Speaking_career-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Politics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Politics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.4 Politics </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Politics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Founding_of_The_Party_for_Democracy_in_Rwanda" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Founding_of_The_Party_for_Democracy_in_Rwanda"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.4.1 Founding of The Party for Democracy in Rwanda </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Founding_of_The_Party_for_Democracy_in_Rwanda-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Criticism_of_RPF_&_President_Kagame" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Criticism_of_RPF_&_President_Kagame"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.4.2 Criticism of RPF & President Kagame </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Criticism_of_RPF_&_President_Kagame-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Government_response" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Government_response"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.4.3 Government response </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Government_response-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-FDLR" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#FDLR"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.4.4 FDLR </div> </a> <ul id="toc-FDLR-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-FLN" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#FLN"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.4.5 FLN </div> </a> <ul id="toc-FLN-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Kidnapping,_arrest,_and_trial" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Kidnapping,_arrest,_and_trial"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 Kidnapping, arrest, and trial </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Kidnapping,_arrest,_and_trial-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Kidnapping, arrest, and trial subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Kidnapping,_arrest,_and_trial-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Kidnapping" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Kidnapping"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.1 Kidnapping </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Kidnapping-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Trial" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" 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id="toc-European_Union-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-United_States" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#United_States"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.5 United States </div> </a> <ul id="toc-United_States-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-U.N._Group_on_Arbitrary_Detention" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#U.N._Group_on_Arbitrary_Detention"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.6 U.N. Group on Arbitrary Detention </div> </a> <ul id="toc-U.N._Group_on_Arbitrary_Detention-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Lawsuits" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Lawsuits"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.7 Lawsuits </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Lawsuits-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Release" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Release"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.8 Release </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Release-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Awards_received" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Awards_received"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 Awards received </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Awards_received-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Media" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Media"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 Media </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Media-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Media subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Media-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Books" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Books"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.1 Books </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Books-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Film" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Film"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.2 Film </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Film-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11 Further reading </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12 External links </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" title="Table of Contents" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" > Toggle the table of contents </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading">Paul Rusesabagina</h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. 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data-title="Pol Rusesabacina" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rusesabagina" title="Paul Rusesabagina – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Paul Rusesabagina" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rusesabagina" title="Paul Rusesabagina – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Paul Rusesabagina" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rusesabagina" title="Paul Rusesabagina – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Paul Rusesabagina" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rusesabagina" title="Paul Rusesabagina – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Paul Rusesabagina" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rusesabagina" title="Paul Rusesabagina – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Paul Rusesabagina" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A7" title="پاول روسساباگینا – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="پاول روسساباگینا" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rusesabagina" title="Paul Rusesabagina – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Paul Rusesabagina" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rusesabagina" title="Paul Rusesabagina – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Paul Rusesabagina" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rusesabagina" title="Paul Rusesabagina – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Paul Rusesabagina" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rusesabagina" title="Paul Rusesabagina – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Paul Rusesabagina" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rw mw-list-item"><a href="https://rw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rusesabagina" title="Paul Rusesabagina – Kinyarwanda" lang="rw" hreflang="rw" data-title="Paul Rusesabagina" data-language-autonym="Ikinyarwanda" data-language-local-name="Kinyarwanda" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ikinyarwanda</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rusesabagina" title="Paul Rusesabagina – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Paul Rusesabagina" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kiswahili</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7" title="پول روسيساباجينا – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="پول روسيساباجينا" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rusesabagina" title="Paul Rusesabagina – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Paul Rusesabagina" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%90%E3%82%AE%E3%83%8A" title="ポール・ルセサバギナ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ポール・ルセサバギナ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rusesabagina" title="Paul Rusesabagina – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Paul Rusesabagina" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rusesabagina" title="Paul Rusesabagina – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Paul Rusesabagina" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rusesabagina" title="Paul Rusesabagina – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Paul Rusesabagina" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0,_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB" title="Русесабагина, Пол – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Русесабагина, Пол" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rusesabagina" title="Paul Rusesabagina – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Paul Rusesabagina" data-language-autonym="Simple English" 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title="Ruanda-Urundi">Ruanda-Urundi</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">Rwandan</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Citizenship</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a><a href="#cite_note-nytimes-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data">Kenya Utalii College</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data org"><a href="/wiki/PDR-Ihumure" title="PDR-Ihumure">PDR-Ihumure</a>,<a href="#cite_note-jambonews-2">[2]</a> Movement for Democratic Change</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>Esther Bamurage (<abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr>)</li> <li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Tatiana_Rusesabagina" title="Tatiana Rusesabagina">Tatiana Rusesabagina</a></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1989)</div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom" title="Presidential Medal of Freedom">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a></li> <li>Immortal Chaplains Prize for Humanity</li> <li>Wallenberg Medal of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Civil_Rights_Museum" title="National Civil Rights Museum">National Civil Rights Museum</a> Freedom Award</li> <li>Tom Lantos Human Rights Prize from the <a href="/wiki/Lantos_Foundation_for_Human_Rights_and_Justice" class="mw-redirect" title="Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice">Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> Paul Rusesabagina (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><a href="/wiki/Kinyarwanda_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Kinyarwanda language">Kinyarwanda</a>: <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA" title="Help:IPA">[ɾusesɑβaɟinɑ]</a>;<a href="#cite_note-NPR-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-:0-4">[4]</a> born 15 June 1954) is a <a href="/wiki/Rwanda" title="Rwanda">Rwandan</a> human rights activist. He worked as the manager of the <a href="/wiki/H%C3%B4tel_des_Mille_Collines" title="Hôtel des Mille Collines">Hôtel des Mille Collines</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kigali" title="Kigali">Kigali</a>, during a period in which it housed 1,268 <a href="/wiki/Hutu" title="Hutu">Hutu</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tutsi" title="Tutsi">Tutsi</a> refugees fleeing the <a href="/wiki/Interahamwe" title="Interahamwe">Interahamwe</a> militia during the <a href="/wiki/Rwandan_genocide" title="Rwandan genocide">Rwandan genocide</a>.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> None of these refugees were hurt or killed during the attacks.<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> An account of Rusesabagina's actions during the genocide was later depicted in the film <a href="/wiki/Hotel_Rwanda" title="Hotel Rwanda">Hotel Rwanda</a> in 2004, in which he was portrayed by American actor <a href="/wiki/Don_Cheadle" title="Don Cheadle">Don Cheadle</a>.<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> The film has been the subject both of critical acclaim and controversy in <a href="/wiki/Rwanda" title="Rwanda">Rwanda</a>.<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> On the back of newly found international fame, Rusesabagina embarked on a successful career as a public speaker, mostly touring universities in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>.<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> He campaigns for the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation, which he founded in 2006.<a href="#cite_note-NPR-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> He holds <a href="/wiki/Belgians" title="Belgians">Belgian</a> citizenship and a <a href="/wiki/Green_card" title="Green card">U.S. green card</a> and has homes in <a href="/wiki/Brussels,_Belgium" class="mw-redirect" title="Brussels, Belgium">Brussels</a>, Belgium and <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio,_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="San Antonio, Texas">San Antonio</a>, Texas.<a href="#cite_note-nytimes-1">[1]</a> Since fleeing Rwanda in 1996, he has become a prominent critic of <a href="/wiki/Paul_Kagame" title="Paul Kagame">Paul Kagame</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Rwandan_Patriotic_Front" title="Rwandan Patriotic Front">RPF government</a>.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> He founded the <a href="/wiki/PDR-Ihumure" title="PDR-Ihumure">PDR-Ihumure</a> political party in 2006, and is currently President of the <a href="/wiki/Rwanda_Movement_for_Democratic_Change" title="Rwanda Movement for Democratic Change">MRCD</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:0-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-:2-15">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> On 31 August 2020, believing he was taking a chartered flight to <a href="/wiki/Burundi" title="Burundi">Burundi</a> from <a href="/wiki/Dubai" title="Dubai">Dubai</a>, he arrived in <a href="/wiki/Kigali" title="Kigali">Kigali</a>, where he was arrested on nine charges of terrorism that related to his association with the <a href="/wiki/PDR-Ihumure" title="PDR-Ihumure">FLN</a> (National Liberation Front), the armed wing of <a href="/wiki/PDR-Ihumure" title="PDR-Ihumure">PDR-Ihumure</a>, who claimed responsibility for terrorist attacks in 2018 that killed at least nine people.<a href="#cite_note-attacks-17">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> On 20 September 2021, he was convicted on terrorism charges and sentenced to 25 years in prison.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Working_Group_on_Arbitrary_Detention" title="Working Group on Arbitrary Detention">UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention</a> rendered its opinion on 18 March 2022 that Rusesabagina had been illegally kidnapped, tortured, and sentenced after an unfair trial. The Working Group further found that Rusesabagina has been targeted by the government on account of his work as a <a href="/wiki/Human_rights_defender" title="Human rights defender">human rights defender</a>, because of his criticism of the government on a broad range of issues. In 2023, after serving two years in <a href="/wiki/Mageragere_Prison" title="Mageragere Prison">Mageragere Prison</a>, Rusesabagina's sentence was commuted by the Rwandan president.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life,_education,_and_family">Early life, education, and family</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life, education, and family">edit</a>]</div> Rusesabagina was born in 1954.<a href="#cite_note-DerSpiegel202112-21">[21]</a> He was one of nine children born to a <a href="/wiki/Hutu" title="Hutu">Hutu</a> father, a respected community elder named Thomas Rupfure, and a <a href="/wiki/Tutsi" title="Tutsi">Tutsi</a> mother in Murama, Rwanda.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a><a href="#cite_note-:5-23">[23]</a> Although stating that he grew up poor, in a "house ... made of mud and sticks" and "without shoes", Rusesabagina described his upbringing as "solidly middle class by the standards of Africa in the 1950s".<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> Rusesabagina's parents sent him to school in a town near <a href="/wiki/Gitwe,_Rwanda" title="Gitwe, Rwanda">Gitwe</a> run by the <a href="/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist_Church" title="Seventh-day Adventist Church">Seventh-day Adventist Church</a>. By the age of 13, he was fluent in English and French, as well as his native <a href="/wiki/Kinyarwanda" title="Kinyarwanda">Kinyarwanda</a>. Because of distance and his commitment to work, he and his wife Esther legally separated in 1981. Rusesabagina was granted full custody of their three children: Diane, Lys, and Roger.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> In 1987, he was invited to a wedding where he met Tatiana, a nurse who lived in <a href="/wiki/Ruhengeri" title="Ruhengeri">Ruhengeri</a>. Tatiana and Paul married two years later and she adopted his children. She gave birth twice, but only their son, Trésor, survived infancy. Rusesabagina's father died in 1991, and his mother shortly after.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ministry">Ministry</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Ministry">edit</a>]</div> By the end of his adolescence, Rusesabagina had decided to become a minister. He studied at the Faculty of Theology in <a href="/wiki/Yaound%C3%A9" title="Yaoundé">Yaoundé</a>. In Cameroon, he soon became disillusioned with the prospect of a career as a clergyman, deciding he wanted to live an 'urban life'.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hotel_des_Mille_Collines">Hotel des Mille Collines</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Hotel des Mille Collines">edit</a>]</div> In December 1978, Rusesabagina moved to <a href="/wiki/Kigali" title="Kigali">Kigali</a>. While there, an acquaintance, Isaac Mulihano, invited Rusesabagina to apply for an opening to work at the <a href="/wiki/H%C3%B4tel_des_Mille_Collines" title="Hôtel des Mille Collines">Hôtel des Mille Collines</a>. He was offered a position and was sent to <a href="/wiki/Nairobi" title="Nairobi">Nairobi</a> and then to <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Brussels</a> to study hotel management. As he rose through the ranks at the Hôtel des Mille Collines, his promotions earned him the resentment of some fellow Rwandans in the staff. Some took to calling him '<a href="/wiki/Mzungu" title="Mzungu">muzungu</a>' – a Kinyarwandan word for 'white man'.<a href="#cite_note-Bloomsbury_Publishing-28">[28]</a> In 1992, Paul Rusesabagina was promoted to assistant general manager of the Diplomates Hotel, an affiliate of the Hôtel des Mille Collines.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rwandan_genocide">Rwandan genocide</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Rwandan genocide">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Events_leading_to_genocide">Events leading to genocide</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Events leading to genocide">edit</a>]</div> During Rusesabagina's training abroad, and his rise as a distinguished hôtelier, the Hutu-dominated government of President <a href="/wiki/Juv%C3%A9nal_Habyarimana" title="Juvénal Habyarimana">Juvénal Habyarimana</a> was facing military pressure from the Tutsi-led <a href="/wiki/Rwandan_Patriotic_Front" title="Rwandan Patriotic Front">Rwandan Patriotic Front</a> (RPF). After a <a href="/wiki/Arusha_Accords_(Rwanda)" title="Arusha Accords (Rwanda)">ceasefire in Arusha</a> brought the <a href="/wiki/Rwandan_Civil_War" title="Rwandan Civil War">Civil War</a> to an end in 1993, several reports of militia activity – including the stockpiling of weapons and the creation of lists of Tutsis – had been received by the UN and other authorities.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> Alongside this, radio stations including the infamous <a href="/wiki/Radio_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision_Libre_des_Mille_Collines" title="Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines">Radio Télévision Libre des Milles Collines</a> (RTLM) were broadcasting messages about Tutsi plots to murder Hutus, and encouraging violence towards Tutsis.<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> On 6 April 1994, a plane containing President Habyarimana (and others, including Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira) <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Juvenal_Habyarimana_and_Cyprien_Ntaryamira" class="mw-redirect" title="Assassination of Juvenal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira">was shot down</a> as it approached the <a href="/wiki/Kigali_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Kigali Airport">Kigali Airport</a> for landing.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> Everyone on board was killed. 'Hutu Power' extremists within the government and local militias blamed this event on the Tutsi, and consequently, the <a href="/wiki/Rwandan_genocide" title="Rwandan genocide">Rwandan genocide</a> started on 6 April 1994. <a href="/wiki/Interahamwe" title="Interahamwe">Interahamwe</a> militias consulted their lists and began searching the city for Tutsis and Tutsi 'sympathisers' to murder.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> Though Rusesabagina was Hutu (as his father was Hutu and his mother Tutsi), his wife Tatiana was a Tutsi and his children considered mixed – meaning that his family was under considerable threat.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Providing_shelter">Providing shelter</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Providing shelter">edit</a>]</div> When the violence broke out, soldiers came to Rusesabagina's house, asking him to open the Hôtel Diplomates, which the interim Hutu government used as a headquarters. Rusesabagina bribed the soldiers with money from the hotel safe to ensure safe passage for his family. When the government evacuated the hotel, on account of RPF shelling, Rusesabagina arrived at the Hôtel des Mille Collines.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a><a href="#cite_note-Bloomsbury_Publishing-28">[28]</a> Upon arrival, Rusesabagina promptly phoned the hotel's corporate owners, <a href="/wiki/Sabena" title="Sabena">Sabena</a>, imploring them to put him in charge as the acting general manager of the Mille Collines. They sent through a fax, and he assumed control of the hotel from the staff who had been running it since the killings began.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Despite Rusesabagina's claims that <a href="/wiki/Rom%C3%A9o_Dallaire" title="Roméo Dallaire">Romeo Dallaire</a> 'rescinded' an order for UN protection of the hotel, there was in fact, a strong <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_peacekeeping" title="United Nations peacekeeping">UN peacekeeping</a> presence at the Hotel, including <a href="/wiki/Mbaye_Diagne" title="Mbaye Diagne">Mbaye Diagne</a>, a Senegalese military observer who was ferrying threatened Tutsis into the Hotel.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> General Dallaire – in charge of the UN deployment, and his deputy, Brent Beardsley, were also often at the hotel, ensuring its safety from killings.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> Rusesabagina sheltered approximately twelve hundred people during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> One radio reporter said: "Nobody had been killed, injured, beaten, tortured, expelled or retrieved from the hotel during the whole time we were refugees. Paul Rusesabagina managed to do the impossible to save our lives at the moment when others were massacring their own children, their own wives."<a href="#cite_note-hammer-38">[38]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Family_impact">Family impact</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Family impact">edit</a>]</div> On 3 May, Rusesabagina ensured that his wife and children fled safely in a truck past the militia's roadblocks. The truck set out for <a href="/wiki/Kigali_International_Airport" title="Kigali International Airport">Kigali airport</a> so they could flee to Belgium.<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> He remained in the hotel. Tatiana and her children were specifically targeted within the convoy by radio messages on RTLM, and they returned to the hotel after being attacked.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Tatiana's family faced extreme tragedy. Her mother, brother and sister-in-law, and four nieces and nephews died in the genocide. Her father paid Hutu militia to execute him so that he would not die a more painful death: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"> We all knew we would die, no question. The only question was how. Would they chop us in pieces? With their machetes they would cut your left hand off. Then they would disappear and reappear a few hours later to cut off your right hand. A little later they would return for your left leg etc. They went on till you died. They wanted to make you suffer as long as possible. There was one alternative: you could pay soldiers so they would just shoot you. That's what her [Tatiana's] father did. <div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Paul Rusesabagina in Humo, nr. 3365, 1 March 2005</cite></div></blockquote> By the end of the massacre, four of Rusesabagina's eight siblings remained alive. He comments in his autobiography that "for a Rwandan family, this is a comparatively lucky outcome."<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-genocide_and_politics">Post-genocide and politics</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Post-genocide and politics">edit</a>]</div> After staying in Rwanda for two more years after the genocide, Rusesabagina applied for asylum in <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a> and moved to <a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Brussels</a> with his wife, children, and two nieces in 1996, fearing for his life. There he worked as a <a href="/wiki/Taxi" title="Taxi">taxi</a> driver.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a><a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> They later settled in <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio" title="San Antonio">San Antonio</a>, <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>.<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hotel_Rwanda">Hotel Rwanda</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Hotel Rwanda">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Hotel_Rwanda" title="Hotel Rwanda">Hotel Rwanda</a></div> In 1999, Rusesabagina received a phone call from an American <a href="/wiki/Screenwriter" title="Screenwriter">screenwriter</a> named <a href="/wiki/Keir_Pearson" title="Keir Pearson">Keir Pearson</a>.<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> Pearson, along with his colleague <a href="/wiki/Terry_George" title="Terry George">Terry George</a>, went on to write the script for <a href="/wiki/Hotel_Rwanda" title="Hotel Rwanda">Hotel Rwanda</a> in consultation with Rusesabagina. The script was made into a Hollywood film, starring <a href="/wiki/Don_Cheadle" title="Don Cheadle">Don Cheadle</a> as Rusesabagina. The film was released in 2004 to much critical acclaim. It received three <a href="/wiki/Academy_Awards" title="Academy Awards">Academy Award</a> nominations, including for <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Original_Screenplay" title="Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay">Best Original Screenplay</a> and <a href="/wiki/Best_Actor" title="Best Actor">Best Actor</a> for <a href="/wiki/Don_Cheadle" title="Don Cheadle">Don Cheadle</a>'s portrayal of Rusesabagina.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> In response to critics, <a href="/wiki/Odette_Nyiramilimo" title="Odette Nyiramilimo">Odette Nyiramilimo</a>, a prominent survivor who became a senator in the new government, pushed back against Paul Ruseabagina's suspected bad-faith intentions, saying: "I never saw him threaten to expel people from the hotel if they didn't pay up — never."<a href="#cite_note-hammer2-46">[46]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Criticism">Criticism</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Criticism">edit</a>]</div> In 2008, the book Hotel Rwanda or the Tutsi Genocide as seen by Hollywood, by Alfred Ndahiro, a public relations advisor to Kagame, and journalist Privat Rutazibwa, was published.<a href="#cite_note-Ndahiro_and_Rutazibwa_2008-47">[47]</a> The authors conducted interviews with 74 people who had stayed in the Hotel during the genocide. Their accounts provide an alternative take to the portrayal of Rusesabagina's actions as seen in the film <a href="/wiki/Hotel_Rwanda" title="Hotel Rwanda">Hotel Rwanda</a>: Many of the survivors criticise Rusesabagina in their interviews. This was followed by the 2011 publication of Inside the Hotel Rwanda: The Surprising True Story ... And Why it Matters Today, co-written by Hotel des Mille Collines Survivor Edouard Kayihura and American writer Kerry Zukus.<a href="#cite_note-Kayihura_and_Zukus_2011-48">[48]</a> Both books are critical of Rusesabagina, alleging that he forced refugees to pay for their rooms and all of the food which was given to them, he cut off communication lines to the hotel which were located outside his own office, he was a prominent member of <a href="/wiki/Hutu_Power" title="Hutu Power">Hutu Power</a> politics, and he handed a list of refugees over to <a href="/wiki/Interahamwe" title="Interahamwe">Interahamwe</a> forces and broadcasters at the <a href="/wiki/Radio_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision_Libre_des_Mille_Collines" title="Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines">RTLM</a>, among other things.<a href="#cite_note-Kayihura_and_Zukus_2011-48">[48]</a><a href="#cite_note-Ndahiro_and_Rutazibwa_2008-47">[47]</a><a href="#cite_note-africanarguments.org-49">[49]</a> UN Peacekeepers who were present at the Hotel des Mille Collines during the genocide have also been critical of the film. At a conference in 2014, <a href="/wiki/Rom%C3%A9o_Dallaire" title="Roméo Dallaire">General Romeo Dallaire</a>, who led the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Assistance_Mission_for_Rwanda" title="United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda">UNAMIR</a> mission, said that the film was "not worth looking at."<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a><a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a><a href="#cite_note-africanarguments.org-49">[49]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Awards">Awards</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Awards">edit</a>]</div> He was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom" title="Presidential Medal of Freedom">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a>, the highest civilian honour in the United States, by <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">President George W. Bush</a> on 9 November 2005 for "remarkable courage and compassion in the face of genocidal terror".<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Speaking_career">Speaking career</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Speaking career">edit</a>]</div> After the success of Hotel Rwanda, Rusesabagina acquired global fame. He used this to embark on a career as a public speaker – listed for bookings by both the American Programme Bureau in the United States and the London Speaker Bureau.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a><a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a> Rusesabagina's speaking engagements ranged from schools and universities to churches and businesses, in his own words: "whoever wants to invite me, invites me and I talk about my experiences of 1994".<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Politics">Politics</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Politics">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Founding_of_The_Party_for_Democracy_in_Rwanda">Founding of The Party for Democracy in Rwanda</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Founding of The Party for Democracy in Rwanda">edit</a>]</div> In June 2006, in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington D.C.</a>, he founded a political party in exile: The Party for Democracy in Rwanda: <a href="/wiki/PDR-Ihumure" title="PDR-Ihumure">PDR-Ihumure</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:2-15">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-:3-56">[56]</a> The party's general ideology is somewhat unclear, but as Rusesabagina described in a 2012 speech, its policy is broadly oriented towards the "political struggle to liberate Rwanda from the current <a href="/wiki/Rwandan_Patriotic_Front" title="Rwandan Patriotic Front">RPF</a> dictatorship".<a href="#cite_note-:3-56">[56]</a> The party's membership is mostly <a href="/wiki/Hutu" title="Hutu">Hutu</a>, and is almost entirely based abroad – particularly in <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a> and the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>.<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> In January 2016, Rusesabagina announced his intent to run for <a href="/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_Rwanda" title="List of presidents of Rwanda">President of Rwanda</a>.<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Criticism_of_RPF_&_President_Kagame">Criticism of RPF & President Kagame</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Criticism of RPF & President Kagame">edit</a>]</div> Rusesabagina has been critical of Rwandan President Paul Kagame, denouncing him as a dictator and accusing him of extrajudicial killings.<a href="#cite_note-hammer-38">[38]</a> In 2007, in an interview with American journalist Keith Harmon Snow, Rusesabagina blamed the 1994 genocide on the RPF, claiming that Interahamwe leaders, including <a href="/wiki/Robert_Kajuga_(Interahamwe)" title="Robert Kajuga (Interahamwe)">Robert Kaguja</a>, were working for Paul Kagame, who had ordered them to begin the genocide.<a href="#cite_note-allthingspass.com-59">[59]</a> He also claimed that the RPF shot down <a href="/wiki/Juv%C3%A9nal_Habyarimana" title="Juvénal Habyarimana">Juvénal Habyarimana</a>'s plane, a theory ruled out by a ballistics report, and that the killings committed by the RPF rebels during the conflict constituted genocide.<a href="#cite_note-allthingspass.com-59">[59]</a><a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> The historian <a href="/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Prunier" title="Gérard Prunier">Gérard Prunier</a> agrees that the RPF committed "horrendous crimes", but he rejects the notion of a "double genocide", which he argues "does not stand up to serious inquiry".<a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> In a 2012 speech, Rusesabagina expressed a disillusionment with the RPF, casting doubt on its ability to institute a democratic process and calling for general mobilization to remove the RPF from power.<a href="#cite_note-:3-56">[56]</a><a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> In an open letter to <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">President Bill Clinton</a> in 2012, Rusesabagina warned against the <a href="/wiki/Clinton_Foundation" title="Clinton Foundation">Clinton Foundation</a>'s support for Kagame.<a href="#cite_note-clinton-63">[63]</a> In this letter, he made claims that Rwandan nurses were being ordered to kill by the government. He said that one nurse was "ordered to give tainted vaccines to prisoners, Hutus and other enemies of the Kagame administration" and to "control population growth among undesirable populations by causing birth and surgical complications".<a href="#cite_note-clinton-63">[63]</a> For example, during <a href="/wiki/Caesarean_section" title="Caesarean section">C-sections</a>, nurses were to place metal objects such as scissors into the abdomen before closing the wound to cause infections and death".<a href="#cite_note-clinton-63">[63]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Government_response">Government response</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Government response">edit</a>]</div> His comments have attracted strong criticism in Rwanda. On 6 April 2006, Kagame suggested, "[Rusesabagina] should try his talents elsewhere and not climb on the falsehood of being a hero, because it's totally false".<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> Francois Xavier Ngarambe, the president of <a href="/wiki/Ibuka_(organisation)" title="Ibuka (organisation)">Ibuka</a>, the umbrella body of survivors' associations for the genocide, said of Rusesabagina, "he has hijacked heroism. He is trading with the genocide. He should be charged."<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> <a href="/wiki/Terry_George" title="Terry George">Terry George</a>, the director of Hotel Rwanda, characterized the comment as part of a smear campaign.<a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> The Rwandan government has accused Rusesabagina of genocide denial.<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> Various media outlets in Rwanda, including <a href="/wiki/The_New_Times_(Rwanda)" title="The New Times (Rwanda)">The New Times</a>, have accused him of genocide denial.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="FDLR">FDLR</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: FDLR">edit</a>]</div> Rusesabagina has consistently denied allegations put forward by the Rwandan government accusing Rusesabagina of helping the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Forces_for_the_Liberation_of_Rwanda" title="Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda">Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda</a> (FDLR), a Rwandan <a href="/wiki/Hutu_Power" title="Hutu Power">Hutu Power</a> rebel group, which has been condemned by the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council" title="United Nations Security Council">UN Security Council</a> for "serious violations of <a href="/wiki/International_law" title="International law">international law</a> involving the targeting of women and children".<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> In an open letter to the UN, he equated the FDLR to the RPF, and cast them as "bona fide refugees" who had been "collectively demonized".<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> In a 2010 interview with <a href="/wiki/CNN" title="CNN">CNN</a>, Rusesabagina said: "I have sent no money to terrorists... He [the prosecutor] is not only lying, but lying with bad logic... This is pure and simple fabrication from Kigali".<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> Text messages intercepted by <a href="/wiki/Federal_Intelligence_Service" title="Federal Intelligence Service">German intelligence</a>, between Rusesabagina and the FDLR's former leader, <a href="/wiki/Ignace_Murwanashyaka" title="Ignace Murwanashyaka">Ignace Murwanashyaka</a>, came to light during Murwanashyaka's trial in 2011.<a href="#cite_note-hammer-38">[38]</a> Rusesabagina's wife also denies his association with FDLR. She told the New York Times: "the rebel group "hates Paul because he protected Tutsis during the genocide."<a href="#cite_note-hammer-38">[38]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="FLN">FLN</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: FLN">edit</a>]</div> The armed wing of Paul Rusesabagina's PDR-Ihumure and MRCD political parties, the FLN, was accused of terror attacks in South-West Rwanda in 2018.<a href="#cite_note-attacks-17">[17]</a> In an interview broadcast on <a href="/wiki/Voice_of_America" title="Voice of America">Voice of America</a> <a href="/wiki/Kinyarwanda" title="Kinyarwanda">Kinyarwanda</a> in 2018, when asked if FLN rebels were in the <a href="/wiki/Nyungwe_Forest" title="Nyungwe Forest">Nyungwe forest</a> near where the attacks took place, Rusesabagina responded: "We are angry. We did not enter it to abandon it, we are there to demand our rights as Rwandan natives".<a href="#cite_note-hammer-38">[38]</a> After his arrest, he admitted that he had founded the FLN "as an armed wing, not as a terrorist group.... I do not deny that the FLN committed crimes but my role was diplomacy".<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a> He has denied any wrongdoing. Rusesabagina has admitted to backing and "diplomatically" supporting the group, as evidenced in a widely disseminated video in which he pledges his "unreserved support" for the FLN and denies any wrongdoing. In the video, Rusesabagina's speech includes: "The time has come for us to use any means possible to bring about change in Rwanda, as all political means have been tried and failed. It is time to attempt our last resort. Hence, I plead my unreserved support that our youth, The National Liberation forces, NLF, launches against the Kagame army in order to free the Rwandan people. As Rwandans it is important to understand that this is the only way to bring about change in the whole country."<a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a><a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Kidnapping,_arrest,_and_trial">Kidnapping, arrest, and trial</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Kidnapping, arrest, and trial">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kidnapping">Kidnapping</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Kidnapping">edit</a>]</div> Rusesabagina, a <a href="/wiki/Permanent_resident" class="mw-redirect" title="Permanent resident">permanent resident</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> who has not lived in Rwanda since an <a href="/wiki/Assassination" title="Assassination">assassination</a> attempt was made on him in 1996,<a href="#cite_note-nytimes-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> had gone on a trip to <a href="/wiki/Dubai" title="Dubai">Dubai</a> shortly before being arrested.<a href="#cite_note-guardian-hotel-rwanda-activist-paul-rusesabagina-kidnapped-from-dubai-76">[76]</a> In a jailhouse interview with <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a>, Rusesabagina stated that in Dubai, he boarded a <a href="/wiki/GainJet" title="GainJet">GainJet</a><a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a><a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a> charter jet that he thought was bound for <a href="/wiki/Burundi" title="Burundi">Burundi</a>, where he planned to speak at the invitation of a Christian pastor; instead, the plane took him to Kigali.<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a> In a February 2021, interview with <a href="/wiki/Marc_Lamont_Hill" title="Marc Lamont Hill">Marc Lamont Hill</a> on <a href="/wiki/Al_Jazeera_Media_Network" title="Al Jazeera Media Network">Al Jazeera</a>, Rwandan Minister of Justice <a href="/wiki/Johnston_Busingye" title="Johnston Busingye">Johnston Busingye</a> admitted that the Rwandan government had paid for the private jet that brought Rusesabagina to Kigali.<a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a> On 31 August 2020, Rusesabagina was kidnapped and taken to Kigali where he was arrested on charges of <a href="/wiki/Terrorism" title="Terrorism">terrorism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arson" title="Arson">arson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kidnap" class="mw-redirect" title="Kidnap">kidnap</a> and "<a href="/wiki/Murder" title="Murder">murder</a> perpetrated against unarmed, innocent Rwandan civilians on Rwandan territory".<a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a> The charges refer to terrorist attacks that took place in the south of Rwanda, near the Burundi border, in 2018. At least nine people were killed in these attacks, including two children.<a href="#cite_note-attacks-17">[17]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Trial">Trial</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Trial">edit</a>]</div> In October 2020, the Rwandan Prosecution Authority announced that it would try Rusesabagina along with 16 alleged rebels.<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a> His trial was initially scheduled for the 26 January 2021, but was postponed by ongoing complications with the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a> situation in Kigali.<a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a> His trial, alongside 20 co-defendants, began on 17 February 2021.<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> Rusesabagina told the court that he did not have Rwandan citizenship, so he could not face trial in Rwanda.<a href="#cite_note-:4-85">[85]</a><a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a> Another defendant, FLN spokesperson Callixte Nsabimana, seemed to be shocked by these comments, testifying that Rusesabagina "had ambitions to become the president of Rwanda. Now how do you have such ambitions when you're not Rwandan? We waged war on Rwanda, and failed and were captured. It is embarrassing for him to now claim that he is not Rwandan."<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a><a href="#cite_note-:4-85">[85]</a> Following a hearing held on 12 March 2021, Rusesabagina stated his intention to no longer engage in the court process because he believed that justice would not be achieved and accused the court of not respecting his rights to a fair trial. Rusesabagina did not attend subsequent hearings, and the presiding judge Antoine Muhima ruled that the trial would continue.<a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a><a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a> In July 2021, the court announced that the verdict of the trial would be promulgated on 20 August 2021.<a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> On 20 September 2021, he was found guilty of terrorism-related charges.<a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a> During the court proceeding, he denounced president <a href="/wiki/Paul_Kagame" title="Paul Kagame">Paul Kagame</a> and reported that he had been abducted from exile to stand trial in Rwanda.<a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> Following his conviction, Rusesabagina was given a 25-year prison sentence.<a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a> Human rights advocates stated that they believed the charges were politically motivated by Rusesabagina's criticism of Kagame.<a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a> On 24 January 2022, prosecutors in the Kigali court sought life imprisonment for Rusesabagina in the trial.<a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Criticism_2">Criticism</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Criticism">edit</a>]</div> Rusesabagina's lawyers have argued that the arrest was motivated by Rusesabagina's outspoken criticism of the Rwandan government, in line with other arrests and disappearances of dissidents under the presidency of Paul Kagame. They have also argued that his flight to Rwanda was illegal under international law and constitutes <a href="/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition" title="Extraordinary rendition">extraordinary rendition</a>. <a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch" title="Human Rights Watch">Human Rights Watch</a> called Rusesabagina's trial "flawed" and an example of Rwanda's overreach and manipulation of the country's justice system.<a href="#cite_note-:6-96">[96]</a> Rwandan authorities repeatedly violated Rusesabagina's due process rights during the trial and interfered with his right to counsel.<a href="#cite_note-:6-96">[96]</a> HRW accused Rwanda of violating international criminal laws by kidnapping Rusesabagina.<a href="#cite_note-:6-96">[96]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criticism_of_detention,_lawsuits,_and_campaign_to_release">Criticism of detention, lawsuits, and campaign to release</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Criticism of detention, lawsuits, and campaign to release">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Family">Family</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Family">edit</a>]</div> Rusesabagina's adopted daughter Carine Kanimba has protested against his arrest, calling it politically motivated. Kanimba claimed: "What they're accusing him of is all made up. There is no evidence to what they're claiming...We know this is a wrongful arrest".<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> Rusesabagina's family is a part of the <a href="/wiki/Bring_Our_Families_Home" title="Bring Our Families Home">Bring Our Families Home</a> campaign which advocates to bring home wrongful detainees and hostages. His image is featured in a 15-foot mural in Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) along with other Americans wrongfully detained abroad.<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Activists">Activists</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Activists">edit</a>]</div> Human rights activists and celebrities have called for the release of Rusesabagina. <a href="/wiki/Don_Cheadle" title="Don Cheadle">Don Cheadle</a> has called for his release.<a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a> Others who have supported Rusesabagina include <a href="/wiki/Joaquin_Phoenix" title="Joaquin Phoenix">Joaquin Phoenix</a>, <a href="/wiki/Doc_Rivers" title="Doc Rivers">Doc Rivers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chiwetel_Ejiofor" title="Chiwetel Ejiofor">Chiwetel Ejiofor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chris_Evans_(actor)" title="Chris Evans (actor)">Chris Evans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scarlett_Johansson" title="Scarlett Johansson">Scarlett Johansson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mark_Ruffalo" title="Mark Ruffalo">Mark Ruffalo</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sophie_Okonedo" title="Sophie Okonedo">Sophie Okonedo</a>.<a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="CHOGM">CHOGM</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: CHOGM">edit</a>]</div> Rwanda hosted the <a href="/wiki/2022_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="2022 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">2022 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting</a> (CHOGM 2022), and there were calls for <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="Commonwealth of Nations">Commonwealth</a> governments to pressure Rwanda to release Rusesabagina.<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="European_Union">European Union</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: European Union">edit</a>]</div> The <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> criticised the arrest in February 2021 by adopting a resolution (2021/2543[RSP]) condemning the arrest.<a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Rwanda" title="Parliament of Rwanda">Rwandan parliament</a> criticised the EU resolution, saying that it gave an "unrealistic and baseless characterisation" of his arrest.<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_States">United States</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: United States">edit</a>]</div> The <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> government considers Rusesabagina to have been "wrongfully detained."<a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a> The <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</a> passed a resolution authored by Congressman <a href="/wiki/Joaquin_Castro" title="Joaquin Castro">Joaquin Castro</a> (TX-20) and Congresswoman <a href="/wiki/Young_Kim" title="Young Kim">Young Kim</a> (CA-39) that calls on the Rwandan government to release Paul Rusesabagina.<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="U.N._Group_on_Arbitrary_Detention">U.N. Group on Arbitrary Detention</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: U.N. Group on Arbitrary Detention">edit</a>]</div> The <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">UN</a> <a href="/wiki/Working_Group_on_Arbitrary_Detention" title="Working Group on Arbitrary Detention">Working Group on Arbitrary Detention</a> found on 18 March 2022 that he had been illegally kidnapped, tortured, and sentenced after an unfair trial. The Working Group stated that: "It is clear on the facts that Mr. Rusesabagina has been targeted by the Government on account of his work as a human rights defender, because of his criticism of the Government on a broad range of human rights issues, including unfair elections and a lack of democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of association and freedom of the press. He has also challenged cases of arbitrary detention, torture and extrajudicial killings."<a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a> The Working Group called on the Government "to release Mr. Rusesabagina immediately and accord him an enforceable right to compensation and other reparations, in accordance with international law" and "to ensure a full and independent investigation of the circumstances surrounding the arbitrary deprivation of liberty of Mr. Rusesabagina and to take appropriate measures against those responsible for the violation of his rights. "Rusesabagina's family welcomed the Working Group's finding, and were "hopeful that the world will listen to this call by the United Nations and put pressure on Rwanda to immediately free our father and husband".<a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lawsuits">Lawsuits</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Lawsuits">edit</a>]</div> Some of Rusesabagina's family members are suing charter airline <a href="/wiki/GainJet_Aviation" class="mw-redirect" title="GainJet Aviation">GainJet</a> for not disclosing the true destination of the flight to Rusesabagina and aiding in his kidnapping.<a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a> Rusesabagina's family filed a lawsuit against the Rwandan government and high-ranking officials in Rwanda alleging that they conspired to "facilitate and execute an elaborate plot to lure" Rusesabagina from his home in San Antonio to Rwanda "where he would be tortured and illegally detained for the remainder of his life".<a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Release">Release</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Release">edit</a>]</div> In October 2022, Rusesabagina appealed to the Rwandan government for clemency, pledging that if released he would return to the United States and "leave questions regarding Rwandan politics behind [him]". This appeal was granted on 24 March 2023, following intervention from the United States and Qatar, and his sentence was commuted by Kagame to time served. He was released the following day and returned to live with his family in San Antonio, Texas.<a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a><a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_received">Awards received</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Awards received">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>2000 – <a href="/wiki/Immortal_Chaplains" class="mw-redirect" title="Immortal Chaplains">Immortal Chaplains</a> Prize for Humanity<a href="#cite_note-:1-112">[112]</a></li> <li>2005 – <a href="/wiki/Wallenberg_Medal" title="Wallenberg Medal">Wallenberg Medal</a> of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a><a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a></li> <li>2005 – <a href="/wiki/National_Civil_Rights_Museum" title="National Civil Rights Museum">National Civil Rights Museum</a> Freedom Award<a href="#cite_note-:1-112">[112]</a></li> <li>2005 – <a href="/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom" title="Presidential Medal of Freedom">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a><a href="#cite_note-:1-112">[112]</a></li> <li>2005 – <a href="/wiki/Conrad_N._Hilton_Foundation" title="Conrad N. Hilton Foundation">Conrad N. Hilton Foundation</a> Humanitarian Award<a href="#cite_note-:1-112">[112]</a></li> <li>2007 – Honorary Doctorate of Law from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Guelph" title="University of Guelph">University of Guelph</a><a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a></li> <li>2008 – Honorary Degree from <a href="/wiki/Gustavus_Adolphus_College" title="Gustavus Adolphus College">Gustavus Adolphus College</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]</li> <li>2009 – Honorary Degree from <a href="/wiki/Loyola_University_Chicago" title="Loyola University Chicago">Loyola University Chicago</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]</li> <li>2011 – Tom Lantos Human Rights Prize from the <a href="/wiki/Lantos_Foundation_for_Human_Rights_and_Justice" class="mw-redirect" title="Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice">Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice</a><a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media">Media</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Media">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Books">edit</a>]</div> Rusesabagina's story was first told in <a href="/wiki/Philip_Gourevitch" title="Philip Gourevitch">Philip Gourevitch</a>'s book <a href="/wiki/We_Wish_to_Inform_You_That_Tomorrow_We_Will_Be_Killed_with_Our_Families" title="We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families">We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families</a>, which was published in 1998.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] His autobiography An Ordinary Man (written with <a href="/wiki/Tom_Zoellner" title="Tom Zoellner">Tom Zoellner</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-670-03752-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-670-03752-4">0-670-03752-4</a>) was published by Zach Bell in April 2006.<a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a> In 2008, Alfred Ndahiro – a close advisor to <a href="/wiki/Paul_Kagame" title="Paul Kagame">Paul Kagame</a> – and Rwandan scholar Privat Rutazibwa wrote Hotel Rwanda: Or the Tutsi Genocide as Seen by Hollywood (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/2-296-05046-8" title="Special:BookSources/2-296-05046-8">2-296-05046-8</a>). In 2014, Edouard Kayihura, who hid in the Hotel during the 100 days of genocide, wrote Inside the Hotel Rwanda: The Surprising True Story ... and Why It Matters Today (written with Kerry Zukus <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-937-85673-9" title="Special:BookSources/1-937-85673-9">1-937-85673-9</a>). Both have been critical of Rusesabagina.<a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a><a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a> In October 2023, Yvonne Uwera, a Rwandan human rights activist published the book "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKM4K1P9?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_XG9HNG4AEASG239HKECF">RESCUING THE HERO: A Daughter's Quest to Free The Hotel Rwanda Legend</a>" <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKN97FCL/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=">ISBN-13:979-8863644448</a> about the <a href="/wiki/Carine_Kanimba" title="Carine Kanimba">Carine Kanimba</a>'s relentless fight to free her adoptive father, Paul Rusesabagina. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Film">Film</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Film">edit</a>]</div> Rusesabagina's work during the genocide is dramatized in the 2004 movie <a href="/wiki/Hotel_Rwanda" title="Hotel Rwanda">Hotel Rwanda</a>, he is portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Don_Cheadle" title="Don Cheadle">Don Cheadle</a>.<a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a> Cheadle's performance was met with critical acclaim and the actor was nominated for the <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Actor" title="Academy Award for Best Actor">Academy Award for Best Actor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Actor_%E2%80%93_Motion_Picture_Drama" class="mw-redirect" title="Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama">Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama</a> and <a href="/wiki/Screen_Actors_Guild_Award_for_Outstanding_Performance_by_a_Male_Actor_in_a_Leading_Role" title="Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role">Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hotel_Rwanda" title="Hotel Rwanda">Hotel Rwanda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rwandan_genocide" title="Rwandan genocide">Rwandan Genocide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mbaye_Diagne" title="Mbaye Diagne">Mbaye Diagne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rom%C3%A9o_Dallaire" title="Roméo Dallaire">Romeo Dallaire</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rusesabagina&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-nytimes-1">^ <a href="#cite_ref-nytimes_1-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-nytimes_1-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-nytimes_1-2">c</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAbdi_Latif_Dahir2020" class="citation news cs1">Abdi Latif Dahir (31 August 2020). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/world/africa/paul-rusesabagina-hotel-rwanda-arrest.html">"'Hotel Rwanda' Hero, Paul Rusesabagina, Is Held on Terrorism Charge"</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210113103520/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/world/africa/paul-rusesabagina-hotel-rwanda-arrest.html">Archived</a> from the original on 13 January 2021. 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"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/09/AR2006050901242.html">Smearing a Hero</a>." <a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a>. Wednesday 10 May 2006.</li> <li>Inside the Hotel Rwanda: The Surprising True Story and Why It Matters Today. Edouard Kayihura and Kerry Zukus. 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