Paul Rusesabagina, No 'Ordinary Man'

On Thursday 12 years ago, a 100-day massacre occurred in an attack on an airplane in Rwanda of the Central African Republic, at least 800,000 people died.

When their plane was about to land in the capital of Kigali, President of Rwanda Huvanar Habarimana, a member of the Hutu family and President Burundi Ciprian · Tatariamira were killed. That correspondence was very quick. The president guard killed political opponents of Habarimana and started a pre-planned campaign to kill the opposing Tutsi members.

The international community rarely stops bloodshed, only when the Tutsi insurgent group ended Hutu's endorsement of the government.

Paul Rusesabagina named "African Oscar Schindler" boycotted the madness surrounding him and quietly protected over 1,200 people on the walls of the luxury hotel he was managing. Tsuchi and gentle huts. Outside the walls of these hotels, mobs find out their victims and hack them at Machete.

The story of Rusesabagina has become the basis of the Oscar nominated movie Rwanda Hotel. His memoirs made further progress, depicted unprecedented details about his extraordinary career and 100-day terrorist affair in Rwanda - and his betrayal of the UN peacekeepers who did not try to help him. His books also see colonialism, tribal identity, and conflict resolution more widely.

Paul Rusesabagina is an ordinary man - a quiet administrator of a luxury hotel in Rwanda. But on April 6, 1994, the mob with Machete became a cold-blooded murderer and began killing 800,000 citizens in only 100 days. Rusesabagina rescued the life of 1,200 people with amazing courage. In this powerful autobiography, Rusabagina tells his story and explores the complexity of the history of Rwanda and the madness of turning neighbors and friends into murderers.

Today, we talked to the hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina. And he risked his life with Rwandan genocide 12 years ago 1,200 Tutsis and moderate Hutu slaughter. You can read the autobiography of Paul Rusesabagina on our website NPR.org, an excerpt from the general public. If you have questions about Rwanda or Paul · Rusavina at 800-989-TALK, please join us. KONZO: I was born in Khartoum, Sudan. My problem is all the destruction and suffering faced by Africa, whether it is Rwanda or Sudan. As the world turns to other direction, every country has to go from epidemic to AIDS, ethnic cleansing, but in 1990 one million soldiers will release Kurdish people in northern Iraq We gathered. In such a case, will Iraq be destroyed because there is not enough oil?

In the late spring and early summer of 1994, hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina rescued 1,268 Rwandan's lives. In a genocide that killed about 800 thousand Rwandans in 100 days, Rusabagina did what he called "ordinary people". A human evacuation center who is seeking safety or a refugee of moderate Hutsi family. Rusabagina bravely used a combination of diplomacy and persuasion due to the confusion in the suburbs of the hotel. If these did not work - tricks and fraud to protect his guests