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This kind of story comes along rarely.
15 years ago, Hollywood made a movie about Paul Rusesabagina, an unflappable hotelier who saved 1,268 people in the 1994 Rwanda genocide.
On Aug. 31 he dramatically resurfaced in Kigali, cuffed and facing terror charges. How? Why?
15 years ago, Hollywood made a movie about Paul Rusesabagina, an unflappable hotelier who saved 1,268 people in the 1994 Rwanda genocide.
On Aug. 31 he dramatically resurfaced in Kigali, cuffed and facing terror charges. How? Why?
@nytimes reporters in Africa, Europe and the Middle East set out to solve the mystery.
The reporting took us around the globe as we re-traced his steps, trying to understand how a human rights icon once the toast of America could end up in such a predicament.
The reporting took us around the globe as we re-traced his steps, trying to understand how a human rights icon once the toast of America could end up in such a predicament.
@matinastevis knocked on doors in Brussels and Athens, including Rwandan exiles and the jet company that flew Rusesabagina from Dubai.
@ruthmaclean followed the murky trail of Rwandan dissidents who disappeared or died in six countries, often in murky circumstances.
@ruthmaclean followed the murky trail of Rwandan dissidents who disappeared or died in six countries, often in murky circumstances.
@lattif flew to Kigali to interview Rusesabagina himself in his jail cell, as well as a triumphant Rwandan spy chief who could barely contain his glee.
I chased Hollywood & Washington - director Terry George, Rusesabagina’s sons and @DonCheadle, who used a memorable expletive.
I chased Hollywood & Washington - director Terry George, Rusesabagina’s sons and @DonCheadle, who used a memorable expletive.
We hustled, we combed through old UN reports, we turned up a secret letter from a famous Rwanda scholar.
We did a lot of conference calls – from taxis in Athens, a dentist’s chair in Cairo, and the famous Hotel des Mille Collines where the whole story started.
We did a lot of conference calls – from taxis in Athens, a dentist’s chair in Cairo, and the famous Hotel des Mille Collines where the whole story started.
The result is a story about the unlikely trajectory of Paul Rusesabagina, but also about fear and loathing in Kagame’s Rwanda, and the bitter battle of narratives that endures a quarter century after the genocide.
You can read it in today’s @nytimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/world/africa/rwanda-paul-rusesabagina.html
You can read it in today’s @nytimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/world/africa/rwanda-paul-rusesabagina.html
