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Inside the Hotel Rwanda
- The Surprising True Story…and Why It Matters Today
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis, Rosalind Ashford
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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Summary
In 2004, the Academy Award-nominated movie Hotel Rwanda lionized hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina for single-handedly saving the lives of all who sought refuge in the Hotel des Mille Collines during Rwanda’s genocide against the Tutsi in 1994. Because of the film, the real-life Rusesabagina has been compared to Oskar Schindler, but unbeknownst to the public, the hotel’s refugees do not endorse Rusesabagina’s version of the events.
In the wake of Hotel Rwanda’s international success, Rusesabagina is one of the most well-known Rwandans and now the smiling face of the very Hutu Power groups who drove the genocide. He is accused by the Rwandan prosecutor general of being a genocide negationist and funding the terrorist group Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).
For the first time, learn what really happened inside the walls of Hotel des Mille Collines.
In Inside the Hotel Rwanda, survivor Edouard Kayihura tells his own personal story of what life was really like during those harrowing days within the walls of that infamous hotel and offers the testimonies of others who survived there, from Hutu and Tutsi to UN peacekeepers. Kayihura writes of a divided society and his journey to the place he believed would be safe from slaughter.
The book exposes the Hollywood hero of the film Hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina, as a profiteering and politically ambitious Hutu Power sympathizer who extorted money from those who sought refuge, threatening to send those who did not pay to the génocidaires, despite pleas from the hotel’s corporate ownership to stop.
Inside the Hotel Rwanda is at once a memoir, a critical deconstruction of a heralded Hollywood movie alleged to be factual, and a political analysis aimed at exposing a falsely created hero using his fame to be a political force, spouting the same ethnic apartheid that caused the genocide two decades ago.
Kayihura’s Inside the Hotel Rwanda offers an honest and unflinching first-hand account of the reality of life inside the hotel, exposing the man who exploited refugees and shedding much-needed light on the plight of his victims.
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- Maire Reier
- 04-02-19
very good book
really nicely read. it's a necessary book and should be more widely known. word of advice - there is an introduction read by a lady that is really boring to listen to, the voice and tone is not engaging at all. but once you get past that, the actual reader is very good and you feel like it would be the author reading and engaging with you.
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- Annie Marie
- 21-11-14
A good account using a different perspective
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I would not recommend this to any of my friends as it is not something they would want to read. If there was someone who had an interest in issues relating to genocide or Rwanda, I would recommend this book.
What did you like best about this story?
I feel it was an honest account of a perspective experienced during the genocide in Rwanda. This is one mans perspective, which in itself is one sided. When reading this book, it allows you to create visualisations and images which may have been witnessed in Rwanda. It also takes into account the need for recovery and the need for a nation to move past its experiences and work towards a better future.
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- vishal yadav
- 06-06-21
We should not make false heroes based on movies.
I am not Rwandan and haven't done research the Genocide so I can't verify the things said in this book are truth. However, this book do 2 things wonderfully:
1. Educate us about the grim situation Tutsis faced in 94
2. Teach us to not blindfoldedly accept things told us in movies. They are just films inspired by events to make money.
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