4 Quotes & Sayings By Paul Rusesabagina

Paul Rusesabagina is a survivor of the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. He was Secretary General of the Interahamwe, a militia group that committed atrocities in the Rwandan civil war in the 1990s. For his efforts in saving the lives of more than 1,200 people, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize.

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I still wonder how policy officials... can sit down at the table with their families and have any appetite for food, or go to sleep at night, knowing that they failed to act. Human beings were sacrificed for political convenience. This would be enough, I think, to turn any reasonable man into a prisoner of his own conscience for the rest of his life. Paul Rusesabagina
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It always amazes me how people in Europe and the United States can be so indifferent to the speeches of their chancellor or president, for these worlds from the top can be a wind sock for what might happen next. Paul Rusesabagina
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It always bothers me when I hear Rwanda's genocide described as a product of "ancient tribal hatreds." I think this is an easy way for Westerners to dismiss the whole thing as a regrettable but pointless bloodbath that happens to primitive brown people. Paul Rusesabagina