Paul Rusesabagina, general manager of the Hotel des Mille Collines during the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, spoke in San Francisco on Friday, April 21, 2006. He helped shelter over 1,200 people from slaughter by using his influence as general manager of the Hotel des Mille Collines in Kigali, Rwanda. Almost a million others were killed in about 100 days. His heroic and resourceful actions inspired the 2004 film "Hotel Rwanda." Paul Rusesabagina spoke and took questions from the public. His talk ranged from his experiences in Rwanda, some of the similarities and differences between what happened in 1994 and depictions of them in the film, the relationship between Tutsis and Hutus in Rwanda then and now; the current genocide in Darfur; the failures of the UN, the United States, and the rest of the world to take action; the state of democracy in a number of African nations; and prospects for the future.

There will be rallies across the nation on Sunday April 30th to demand action from US political leaders to bring pressure on those responsible for the genocide in Darfur to stop the killing. There will be a rally locally in San Francisco. The largest will be held in Washington, DC.

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