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A profile of Paul Rusesabagina, the Hutu manager of Des Mille Collines Hotel, Kiagli, Rwanda, who saved the lives of more than thousand Tutsis refugees staying in the hotel, is presented. The Mille Collines refugees could see the carnage in the streets below but Rusesabagina protected them from a similar fate at the hands of militia.

Mille Collines Hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina managed to keep his guests alive during the one hundred days of genocide in Rwanda. Rusesabagina used only his phone line, his supply of liquor and his spirit of resistance in keeping himself, his family and guests alive.

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