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Jan 5, 2005

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests." --John Stuart Mill

Hotel Rwanda

Dapper, meticulous and obsequious, Paul Rusesabagina is perfectly suited to his job as manager of the elegant Hotel Mille Collines in Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda. Impressed with fine Scotches and adept at flattering his European guests, he would not seem a likely candidate for heroism. Yet in 1994, in the midst of a horrific genocide, in which close to a million people were slaughtered in a 100-day reign of terror, this brave Rwandan used all the tricks in his book to save more than 1,200 Tutsi refugees from the machetes, rifles and clubs of their Hutu enemies, sheltering them in his hotel while vainly hoping that the Western powers would intervene to end the killing.