Comments on: Was ‘Hotel Rwanda’s’ Paul Rusesabagina a hero or opportunist?

By: Mollllllllly(:

Mollllllllly(: — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:57:25 +0000

Paul Rusesabagina is no hero.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:55:58 +0000

Things are much more complex than that Sheryl. And the comparison between Schindler and Rusesabagina is not appropriate. Rusesabagina become a hero after Terry George decided to make him a hero. He did it with good intentions but he CREATED a hero. Hotel Rwanda is a fiction movie. A beautiful story. Maybe the real status of Rusesabagina wouldn’t matter if he didn’t start using his status for political purposes and, much worse, if he didn’t engage into those horrible distortions of Rwanda history.

By: Sheryl

Sheryl — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:16:25 +0000

Like Schindler’s case there will be testimonies painting Rusesabagina as anything, but a hero. Bottom line is that the times were difficult and difficult times call for difficult decisions, many which were not black and white, but grey.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:11:05 +0000

Holllywood decided Rusesabagina was a hero. We,in Rwanda know who the real heroes are: many Hutus men and women who actually risked their lives to save innocent people. If you choose to live in a Hollywood world. Then he is, indeed, your hero. Keep it with you. Don’t impose him on Rwandans; don’t impose him on the genocide survivors whose scars haven’t healed yet. Keep him for you. Keep him in Hollywood!

By: STUDENT

STUDENT — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:19:41 +0000

THANK GOD FOR HEROS LIKE Paul Rusesabagina

By: STUDENT

STUDENT — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:17:30 +0000

HE IS A HERO!!! **:)** MAY GOD BE WITH HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: STUDENT

STUDENT — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:16:22 +0000

He’s saved many lifes! **:)** May God be with him!

By: Mukiza Edwin

Mukiza Edwin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:26:19 +0000

History has often been a victim to manipulation and mis-interpretation but one Rusesabagina Paul has taken the game too far.
After hoodwinking the entire western world, thanks to that Holy wood movie,the Man has cunningly woven a heroic aroma around him.His lies are quite rude and blatant but as often said,a big lie often is easily believed.
why doesn’t he move with his so called survivors to confirm his heroic deeds?

There cant be an oskar shindler without survivors testimony? In fact it is the survivors of the Jewish Holocaust that informed the world of his deeds not vice versa.
Contrary to our Rwandan Hero,it is him talking of his deeds alone. But the survivors have a different story of the Man, only that the Western World has refused to hear from them.

The Man is simply a Con Man.Period.
The Witnesses to this are the Men and Women who had to sign checks as a guarantee for their protection.
He continues to maintain an Organization calling it the “Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation”,calling for donations from the unsuspecting World purportedly to help out the survivors of the Tutsi Genocide.
Oh My, what callousness! For either the donations haven’t materialized or some one is running a con job ,for none of the survivors is yet to receive the so called Rusesabagina help.

By: Feddy Imenagitero

Feddy Imenagitero — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:50:59 +0000

I am glad that some concerned people have seen the hidden picture of Paul Rusesabagina! He espouses theories verging on hate speech, then it is our responsibility to protest the distortion of our history. All men and women of good faith should not allow this composite Hollywood character to mortgage our future, and that of our children by taking us back to a destructive ethnicism.

By: Flora

Flora — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:19:07 +0000

I’m actually not surprised by the allegations. I heard these rumors a while back, but then again in such situations it’s hard to know how one would act. Same thing happened to Schindler (Schindler’s list) many called him a hero for saving the lives of over one thousand of Polish Jews whereas others claim that Schindler was in charge of a German unit which helped plan the Nazi invasion of Poland.