An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina6/21/2023 When the militia and the Army came with orders to kill my guests, I took them into my office, treated them like friends, offered them beer and cognac, and then persuaded them to neglect their task that day. In April 1994, when a wave of mass murder broke out in my country, I was able to hide 1, 268 people inside the hotel where I worked. Each time this is done, the change is noted in the text. For legal and ethical reasons, I have given pseudonyms to a handful of private Rwandan citizens. All of the people and events described herein are true as I remember them. The authors wish to thank Kathryn Court, Jill Kneerim,Īlexis Washam, and Paul Buckley for their invaluableĪssistance in the production of this book. There was nothing admirable about this attitude it was merely logical.” And to do this there was only one resource: to fight the plague. The essential thing was to save the greatest possible number of persons from dying and being doomed to unending separation. And Tarrou, Rieux, and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be put up, in this way or that, and there must be no bowing down. “Many fledging moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming that there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to the inevitable.
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