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'Hotel Rwanda' hero is honored
"Many voices are calling: 'Please come over for rescuing us!' " Rusesabagina said.
In presenting Rusesabagina with the first Rev. Leon H. Sullivan Humanitarian Award, Gov. Rendell said he had watched Hotel Rwanda Saturday night and was in tears - over Rusesabagina's incredible courage in the face of the events a decade ago and over the fact that such horrors continue in Sudan's Darfur region.
"As loud as we can, we have to say 'enough!' We have to intervene," Rendell said. "If we can protect the people of Iraq and the oil of Iraq, we can protect the people of Darfur."
Rwanda hero decries slaughters
Rusesabagina was contemptuous of the United Nations, whose peacekeeping force did not stop the massacre. He said the body was able to do little more than "admire people killing people" and was a failure.
But he was also frustrated with a litany of post-Rwanda massacres in Burundi, Uganda and the Congo.
"We have changed the dancers, but the music remains the same," he said. Today, unspeakable things are happening in Sudan's Darfur region, which he has visited.
Rusesabagina said he was “more than satisfied” with the depiction of his story in the film “Hotel Rwanda.” He worked closely with the filmmakers, telling them his story and spending time with Cheadle, the actor who portrayed him in the film. He was also there when filming began in Johannesburg, South Africa, in January 2004.
“The outcome is far beyond my expectations,” he said.
Rusesabagina said history continues to repeat itself, but people never learn from it. The world continues to ignore genocide in other African countries, including the Darfur region of Sudan, where 2 million displaced people are barely surviving without food, water or education, he said.
“What I saw in Rwanda in 1990 to 1994 is exactly what’s going on in Darfur,” he said. “What is happening there is a shame to mankind. It’s a shame to all of us.”
He recalled the Holocaust anniversary last month when people vowed to never allow such a genocide happen again.
News in brief from the Philadelphia area
Paul Rusesabagina received the first Rev. Leon H. Sullivan Humanitarian Award, named for the Philadelphia civil rights and equal-opportunity pioneer who died in 2001.
In accepting the award Sunday in front of several hundred people, Rusesabagina urged Westerners not to turn their backs on similar atrocities sweeping Africa today, such as the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region.
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Hotel Rwanda tells the story of something we promised would happen "never again" -- the world watching passively as genocide takes the lives of innocent civilians.
