Amnesty International, a US based so-called rights organization, published an ‘educational document’ based on the fiction film Hotel Rwanda and used it to direct teachers on “how to teach about the (True story) movie.”

The so-called educational document is recommended to be taught to high school students in the traditional classroom or a community setting.

In a message to educators, Amnesty International does not only give a false account of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, but also promotes Paul Rusesabagina as an individual who saved over 1,200 people.

“When the world closed its eyes, he opened his arms. Ten years ago as the country of Rwanda descended into madness, one man made a promise to protect the family he loved and ended up finding the courage to save over 1,200 people.”

“Hotel Rwanda tells the inspiring story of real-life hero Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle), a hotel manager in Rwanda who used his courage and cunning to shelter over a thousand refugees from certain death. While the rest of the world closed its eyes, Paul opened his heart and proved that one good man can make a difference,” reads part of the film synopsis quoted by Amnesty International.

Many Rwandans, wonder why a human rights organization would be interested in distorting the sad history of Rwanda, obscuring the truth and promoting fictional narratives created in Hollywood.

The anti-Rwanda propaganda driven by Amnesty International is shockingly extensive.

Amnesty International’s teacher’s guide that talks about the “Rwandan genocide” and avoids calling it by its real name, the genocide against the Tutsi, is intended to corrupt and confuse the minds of young Americans by obscuring the truth of what happened in Rwanda in 1994.

Just like the Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II between 1941-1945, the Genocide against the Tutsi committed in 1994 in Rwanda targeted the Tutsi.

On January 26, 2018, the United Nations General Assembly adopted draft resolution A/72/L.31, designating April 7 as the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. The UN recognizes that the mass massacres that happened in Rwanda in 1994 as the Genocide against the Tutsi.

Genocide scholars opine that the people and organisations that invent other names for the mass massacres in Rwanda in 1994, rather than the genocide against the Tutsi, have intentions of propping up the double genocide theory.

The narrative of Rusesabagina saving people in Hôtel des Mille Collines was refuted by genocide survivors who were in the hotel. Rusesabagina is, instead, described as an opportunist who charged money to allow people to stay in the hotel and threatened to throw out anyone who did not pay him, defying orders by the president of Sabena Hotels who had urged him to accommodate all refugees without charging them.

Rusesabagina did not play any role in the survival and escape of the Tutsi held up in the hotel, as the fictional Hotel Rwanda movie claims.

He is a man who pursued fame and personal gains.

Edouard Kayihura, one of the survivors of genocide against the Tutsi, and others who took refuge in the hotel recount how Rusesabagina extorted them.

In his book “The Hotel Rwanda:  The Surprising True Story… and Why It Matters Today (March 25, 2014), Kayihura writes that, “In his first meeting with the staff after becoming hotel manager, he instructed that all refugees who couldn’t afford to pay for room be evicted from hotel rooms and sleep in corridors. Others were forced to sign cheques as surety.”

Kayihura reveals that Rusesabagina had good relations with government officials and Interahamwe militia who planned and executed the genocide against the Tutsi. “During his tenure as hotel manager, he had a good relation with leaders of Interahamwe including its president at national level Robert Kajuga and army officers including Gen Augustin Bizimungu, Army Chief of Staff and Col Theoneste Bagosora who was Cabinet Director to the Minister of Defence who served as acting Minister of Defense while the Minister was on mission to Cameroon.”

Col Bagosora was one of the architects of the genocide against the Tutsi. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

At Hôtel des Mille Collines, Rusesabagina who posed as an ordinary man, worked as an intelligence informer collecting intelligence information from people who sought refuge at the hotel.

Today, Rusesabagina is a genocide denier, who formed and led an armed terror group, FLN, to fight against the government of Rwanda.

He collaborates with FDLR, a terrorist organization under UN sanctions.

FDLR was formed by remnants of the perpetrators of the genocide against the Tutsi and continues to wreak havoc in eastern DRC where it is based. The FBI and Belgian authorities shared with their Rwandan authorities’ evidence of Rusesabagina’s connection with terror groups.

Rusesabagina is a convict on parole for acts of terrorism that killed people and destroyed property in western Rwanda in 2018.

Rusesabagina gained fame after his 2004 fictional film-Hotel Rwanda, which portrayed him as a brave man who sacrificed all he could to save the threatened Tutsi.

The hijacked fame followed by the US Presidential Medal of Freedom boosted Rusesabagina’s political ambition of creating his political party PDR-Ihumure, and soliciting funds for his foundation to sponsor terror activities against Rwanda.

Academic institutions, civil society, and the government of Rwanda, should hold Amnesty International accountable for distorting and re-writing the history of Rwanda using a fictional movie Hotel Rwanda, and promoting an individual who is a convict on parole for acts of terrorism.