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...April 1994, he was manager of the luxurious Hotel Mille Collines in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. Hundreds of Tutsi civilians sought refuge inside the walls of his hotel. As genocidal Hutu extremists massed along the Mille Collines?? perimeter, Rusesabagina called for help. The US and its allies in the UN Security Council shamelessly ignored Rusesabagina’s cry. The top UN peacekeeper in Rwanda at the time, Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, recounts in his memoirs: “the people in the Mille Collines were like live bait being toyed with by a wild animal...
George decided to focus the film on the Hotel Mille Collines??where protagonist Paul Rusesabagina worked, and where he harbored hundreds of Tutsis. “Gen. Dallaire didn’t have the level of interaction with the Mille Collines that I needed,” George says. Moreover, with Dallaire’s own book on the market and his movie headed toward American audiences, George concludes: “It was not for me to impinge on him getting his own story...
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