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The woman who picked up the phone was a survivor who stayed at the Milles Collines Hotel. From until the country was officially called Zaire and would have been named as such in formal references. On the other hand, this area was known as Congo from to It should not be unusual for a character in the movie to refer to it as Congo e. Quotes Paul Rusesabagina : I am glad that you have shot this footage and that the world will see it.
User reviews Review. Top review. Extraordinary film based correctly on real deeds about the brutal genocide. Paul is respected for his generosity , charm , friendship and numerous contacts with important people.
He's accidentally trapped in violent events when his family and neighbours are threatened to be killed. He gets avoid it by means of bribes with the hope that United Nations UN and international forces arrive to preventing the civil war. However the happenings break out again. After assassination President of Rwanda, all get worse.
It begins the horrible genocide including rampage , massacres and ravage in Rwanda which is spread along Burundi. Slaughter of Tusis by the Hutu is executed by soldiers and rebels. A journalist Joaquin Phoenix get into tumult and will shoot the events to show it all around the world.
Paul gets to protect his family and unfortunate refugees at the hotel but others hapless people by the hundred are coming to ask for help. Meanwhile, the refugees Tutsis flee toward Congo to find shelter. The film has an acid critic to the indolence of United Nations exception for Colonel incarnated by Nick Nolte and international community and specially , the abandon of the European foreign policy.
An interesting and thought-provoking film depicting terrible happenings and based on historical facts. Thus, a character tells that origin conflict is due to Belgians whom in colonization time differentiated the Tutsi as highest and more white complexion and co-governed united the country, now the Hutu are taking the vengeance.
It's calculated in the indiscriminate massacre were cruelly killed by militia Interhamwe approximately one million people and in only three month. The bloody conflict finished in when the Tutsi throw out the Hutu army and militia through the frontier Congo. He always maintained that it was what he said that made the difference.
Words can be "powerful tools of life", he wrote in his book, but now they have landed him in prison. Rusesabagina, who left Rwanda in , went from hero to enemy of the state in a short time as his criticism of the post-genocide government grew louder. It gradually morphed into calls for regime change. In a video message in , he was recorded as saying that "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". Rwanda's government, under President Paul Kagame, has a reputation for dealing harshly with opponents in exile. Mr Kagame, a Tutsi, led the forces that ended the slaughter and later went on to become president. A number of his critics have been killed, or attempts have been made on their lives, but the government has always dismissed suggestions that it was involved. Rusesabagina had long complained of harassment from Rwandan agents.
In , he left Belgium, where he had settled with his family, for the US after his home was burgled several times and important documents were stolen. His journey to pariah status began after the film Hotel Rwanda was released in Rusesabagina's story had remained largely unknown for a decade, while he worked as a taxi driver in the Belgian capital, Brussels. It was featured in a section of journalist Philip Gourevitch's book about the genocide, but it was the Hollywood movie, where he was played by Don Cheadle, that brought him global attention.
The movie's premiere in his home country was in front of 10, people in a stadium in the capital, Kigali, which Rusesabagina was expected to attend.
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