The Hotel Manager Who Refused to Look Away
In April 1994, machetes and madness swept through the streets of Kigali. Rwanda's genocide had begun, and within hours, rivers of desperate Tutsi families began...
This is a contemporary on courage and compassion, drawing on Proverbs 24:11-12.
In April 1994, machetes and madness swept through the streets of Kigali. Rwanda's genocide had begun, and within hours, rivers of desperate Tutsi families began streaming toward the Hôtel des Mille Collines — a Belgian-owned luxury hotel in the heart of the capital. Paul Rusesabagina, a Hutu hotel manager married to a Tutsi woman, faced the kind of choice most of us pray we never encounter.…
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