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Paul Rusesabagina
The protagonist in this movie is Paul Rusesabagina. He is the assistant manager of the 4-star Mille Collines. He has 2 children and his wife is named Tatiana. When the Hutu begin killing the Tutsis, the real manager of the Mille Collines fled and Paul was moved up to his position. He reluctantly allows over 1,000 refugees to stay at the Mille Collines and protects his family at all costs. He is trusted by his neighbors and family and most of the refugees and employees at the Mille Collines. When the Hutu came, Paul’s neighbors went straight to his house. Paul starts out reluctantly helping neighbors and refugees, but by the end he is compassionate about saving them and himself. He arranges for his family to be taken to safety and stays at the hotel. He is very good at keeping people please, he wines and dines them to stall or persuade them into doing what he wants, but he uses this “power” for good. …show more content…
This militia is made up of Hutus who want to kill all of the Tutsis in Rwanda. They are violent, unforgiving, greedy people. They end up slaughtering almost half of the Tutsis in Rwanda and try to kill more. They kidnap Tutsi women and keep them in pig pens and beat and use them as they please. The interhamwe puts all of the dead Tutsi bodies on a back road that ends up being completely covered. The interhamwe are eventually pushed into a different country by Tutsi rebel soldiers and this ends the Rwandan genocide, but it does not end the pain in the

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