When the world closed its eyes, he opened his arms.

April 6, 1994 was the beginning of a deliberate and ruthless systematic movement to exterminate an entire group of people from the face of the Earth. For 100 days, over one million Tutsi men, women, and children, along with Hutu sympathizers, were killed. Although ample reporting on this crime against humanity was present, the world and its leaders condemned the horrors while sitting on their hands.
Where the world witnessed a hero "Paul Rusesabagina". As manager of the Belgian-owned Mille Collines, a luxury hotel in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, he knew when to slip a bottle of Scotch to corrupt colonels to keep them in his pocket.
Those street smarts became his salvation when Rwanda plummeted into genocide as a wave of ethnic violence ten years ago in an event that transformed the genial businessman into an unlikely hero.

As ethnic Hutus began killing their Tutsi neighbors, Rusesabagina—a Hutu married to a Tutsi woman—turned his hotel into an impromptu refugee camp for more than a thousand terrified Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

Deserted by international peacekeepers, Rusesabagina began cashing in every favor he had ever earned, bribing the Rwandan Hutu soldiers and keeping the bloodthirsty militia (mostly) outside the gates during the hundred days of slaughter.
In the end, he survived along with his wife and three children, as did most of the refugees he sheltered.
Over the course of 100 days in 1994, almost 1 million people were killed . At great personal risk, Rusesabagina offered the Mille Collines Hotel to shelter 1,200 people from certain death.

The movie named Hotel Rwanda tells about courageousness of Paul Rusesabagina on those 100 dark days , The movie is heart throbbing and a excellent master piece for the movie makers and its still my greatest movie of all time.

“I’ve become a humanitarian and I never thought I would become one. And, as a humanitarian, I wanted to take this message on a wider scale, to raise awareness of what happened in my country so that the international community can help others who suffer now.”

- Paul Rusesabagina


More Links:

IMDB

Charity 4 Rwanda

Wikipedia

Official Site "Hotel Rwanda"

Cobain-GONE TOO SOON

At the age of 14,Kurt Cobain was given his first guitar by his uncle. (Cobain was offered the choice of a guitar or a bicycle as a birthday gift, and chose the guitar.) Cobain started by learning a few covers, including AC/DC's "Back in Black" and The Cars' "My Best Friend's Girl". He soon began working on his own songs.
In 1991, the arrival of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" marked the beginning of a dramatic shift of popular rock music away from the dominant genres of the 1980s and toward grunge and alternative rock. Other hit songs written by Cobain include "Come as You Are", "Lithium", "In Bloom", "Heart-Shaped Box", "All Apologies", and "About a Girl".
During the last years of his life, Cobain struggled with drug addiction and the media pressures surrounding him and his wife Courtney Love. On April 8, 1994, Cobain was found dead in his home. His death was ruled a suicide by self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head. Since then, the circumstances surrounding his death have fueled much analysis and debate.

Kurt Cobain is legally recognized to have committed suicide; however, several theories have surfaced suggesting that the frontman of Nirvana was murdered. However the police report claimes that the doors of the greenhouse could not have been locked from the outside, meaning that Cobain would have had to have locked them himself. Cobain's Proponent Tom Grant claims that when he saw the doors for himself, he found that the doors could be locked and pulled shut. Grant also questions the lack of fingerprint evidence connecting Cobain to the key evidence, including the shotgun. However, Grant notes that the official report claims that Cobain's fingerprints were also absent from the suicide note and the pen that had been poked through it, and yet Cobain was found without gloves on his hands. None of the circumstantial evidence directly points to murder, but Grant believes it supports the larger case.

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Kurt Cobain Lyrics


List of songs referencing Kurt Cobain


Declassified Police report

Life Story

Suicide Dispute

Cobain final weeks

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

-Cobain(1993)