The man who inspired the film 'Hotel Rwanda' and was freed by Rwanda last week from a terrorism sentence, arrived in the United States on Wednesday.
March 29, 2023 / 6:43 PMlast week from a terrorism sentence, returned Wednesday to the United States, where he will reunite with his family after being held for more than two years, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The 68-year-old Rusesabagina, a U.S. legal resident and Belgian citizen, was credited with sheltering more than 1,000 ethnic Tutsis at the hotel he managed during Rwanda's 1994 genocide in which over 800,000 Tutsis and Hutus who tried to protect them were killed. He received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom for his efforts.
Rusesabagina had been accused of supporting the armed wing of his opposition political platform, the Rwandan Movement for Democratic Change. The armed group claimed some responsibility for attacks in 2018 and 2019 in southern Rwanda in which nine Rwandans died. Rusesabagina became a public critic of Kagame and left Rwanda in 1996, first living in Belgium and then the U.S.
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