RWANDA:  After dinner several of us visited  the Hotel des Mille Collines “Hotel Rwanda” where in 1994, after the white European staff had been evacuated, acting manager Paul Rusesabagina used his wits and bribes acquire food and water to hold off the radical Interahamwe death squads long enough to save about 2,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus from certain death.  They were rescued eventually by the UN troops who evacuated them across the front to RPF lines.

Paul’ s heroic story of saving these souls from the genocide is played by Don Cheadle in the Oscar winning movie Hotel Rwanda.  The Hotel today offers a quiet refuge on a hill over looking Kigali much the same as it did in 1994.  There are no plaques or momentos commemorating the historic events that occurred here.  

— Fred, Insight Trip Traveler, Hillsborough, CA