Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager portrayed in the movie “Hotel Rwanda,” will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7, in the CUB ballroom.
Rusesabagina used his hotel as an impromptu refugee shelter for more than a thousand people during the Rwandan genocide in 1994, when Hutu-led militias began to slaughter the Tutsi population. The genocide claimed an estimated 800,000 lives.
Deserted by international peacemakers, Rusesabagina relied on previous work as a diplomat and his business connections with important Hutu military leaders to keep the militia outside the gates. Rusesabagina was able to save himself, his wife and three children, and most of the sheltered refugees.
Rusesabagina’s lecture is scheduled to last one hour and will be followed by a 20-minute question-and-answer session from the audience.
The Associated Students of Washington State University Student Entertainment Board will show the movie “Hotel Rwanda” free of admission in the CUB auditorium at 6 and 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 3-4, at 4 and 7 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 5, and at 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 6.
For more information, contact the SEB office at 335-3503 or wsuseb@gmail.com.
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