Jailed for terrorism, onetime hero Rusesabagina is a point of US contention with Rwanda
by Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
Aug 17, 2022
3 minutes
KIGALI, Rwanda â Paul Rusesabagina became known as a rare hero in one of modern history's ugliest chapters: the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Rwandans in the 1994 genocide. He was credited with saving a number of people and inspired books and a movie.
But today, Rusesabagina is starting his second year in prison as a convicted terrorist in the country he said he once hoped to save.
As questions arose over the years about his exact heroic
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