In pre-colonial times, the Tutsis, aristocratic landowners, tyrannized Hutu farmers. In 1959, Hutus rebelled and murdered tens of thousands of the Tutsi elite. Rwanda won independence in 1962.

The genocide of some one million Rwandan Tutsis by their Hutu neighbors remains a disgraceful and too-little-known episode in recent world history. Alas, Terry George's ineffectual "Hotel Rwanda ...

Hotel Rwanda is a factual account of an ordinary man, Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle) who worked at the luxurious Mille Collines Hotel. It was a great job; one that put his family above the miserab… ...

Actually, Rusesabagina was raised in provincial Rwanda, the son of a man from the country’s Hutu ethnic majority and a woman from the Tutsi minority -- the two ethnicities whose latent tensions ...

In Rwanda, a personal identification of either Hutu or Tutsi is frowned upon, but this is only on a superficial basis. People have been told this is how it should be, making this system one of the ...

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When Rwanda gained independence in 1962, the Hutu took over and oppressed the Tutsis. The Tutsis fled and formed a rebel army that returned in the 1990s. In 1994, more than 800,000 Tutsis were ...

Outside Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina is a hero. The hotel manager, whose efforts to save ethnic Tutsis from Rwanda’s 1994 genocide were dramatized in the Oscar-nominated movie “Hotel Rwanda ...

In 1994, civil war broke out in Rwanda between the ruling Hutu tribe and the oppressed Tutsis. A million people were slaughtered while the world looked away.

The year is 1984. Jean Patrick, a young Tutsi boy who’s studying in a primary school in rural Rwanda, loses his father in a vehicular accident.

“Hotel Rwanda,” like “Dirty Pretty Things” and “Schindler’s List,” falls into the category of movies that aren’t pleasant but are necessary to watch.And it’s well done.Director ...