Paul Rusesabagina (original) (raw)

[2007] THE GRINDING MACHINE: TERROR AND GENOCIDE IN RWANDA keith harmon snow talks with Paul Rusesabagina, the ordinary man who inspired the film Hotel Rwanda. In October of 1990, the Rwandan Patriotic Army�the military wing of the Rwanda Patriotic Front�invaded northern Rwanda from western Uganda. The RPA was created in Uganda, assisted by Ugandan troops, and led by Paul Kagame. These were Tutsis in exile, refugees, the Tutsi Diaspora, men like Paul Kagame who was carried to safety as a three year-old�in 1959�on the back of his mother. But the government of Rwanda called on its allies�French, Belgian and Israeli-trained forces from Zaire�and stalled the invasion.
Kagame from the beginning as a war criminal. Why a war criminal? Because, since Kagame came over from Uganda�on his way from Byumba and Ruhengeri in the northeast�what he did was to kill innocent civilians, innocent_Hutu_ civilians. This has never been qualified as a genocide, but it is one; until it is qualified as a genocide, me I won�t call it a genocide, but it is supposed to be one...
...I will give you an example of Hutus and Tutsis who both have been killed since 1994. You know about Kagame completely destroying the refugee camps in Kibeho?
.....the RPF army destroyed refugee camps with helicopters while soldiers were on the ground with machine guns killing everyone, each and every moving human being trying to flee the camp. So, what can we call that? Is that a genocide? Is that a crime against humanity? To me, that is a crime against humanity, which includes genocide and war crimes.
He was the head of military intelligence in Uganda. Between 1986 and 1990: Kagame was the one condemning people to life or death in Uganda, the one who was deciding people�s lives.