1. Hotel Rwanda

2. Ethnic Conflict – Hutus and Tutsis
Genocide began in April of 1994
Hutus targeted Tutsis
800,000 Tutsi killed in 6 weeks (11% of total population
More than 1 million people killed within 100 days

3. Hutu
Tutsi
Farmers
85% of population
Described as “shorter, stockier, darker, flat-nosed, thick-lipped, square-jawed”
Resented Tutsi because Belgians favored them
Pastoralists
15% of population
Described as “taller, more slender, paler-skinned, thin-lipped, narrow-chinned”
Favored by Belgians who colonized Rwanda
Violence escalated upon independence from Belgium in Hutus wanted to dominate the independent government and killed about 20,000 Tutsi in 1963.

4. Tatiana is Paul’s wife. She is Tutsi. They have three children.
Who’s who in the film
Paul Rusesabagina is the manager of the Milles Collines Hotel. He is Hutu.
Tatiana is Paul’s wife. She is Tutsi. They have three children.

5. General Bizimungu is head of the Rwandan Armed Forces
Who’s who in the film
General Bizimungu is head of the Rwandan Armed Forces
George Rutaganda is a businessman and leader of an Interhamwe militia group

6. Interhamwe militia group: Hutu paramilitary organization backed by the Hutu government

7. Who’s who in the film
Colonel Oliver is commander of the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces in Rwanda.
Jack Daglish is a journalist and photographer who documents the Rwandan genocide.

8. Dube (left) and Gregoire (right) both work at the Milles Collines
Who’s who in the film
Dube (left) and Gregoire (right) both work at the Milles Collines

9. The real Paul Rusesabagina with Don Cheadle, the actor who played him.