Rwanda, the resplendent land of a "thousand hills" and a million smiles, is a wondrous paradise on earth! The monumental mathematician and Nobel laureate Dr. Albert Einstein aptly pontificated, "Look ...

Boston College doctoral candidate Marcel Uwineza, S.J., spoke at the United Nations April 12 as part of the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

Rusesabagina was made famous by "Hotel Rwanda," where he saved over 1,000 ethnic Tutsis during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsi, which claimed more than 1 million lives.

Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa.