2.  Genocide began in April of 1994  Hutus targeted Tutsis  800,000 Tutsi killed in 6 weeks (11% of total population  More than 1 million people killed within 100 days

3. HUTU  Farmers  85% of population  Described as “shorter, stockier, darker, flat- nosed, thick-lipped, square-jawed”  Resented Tutsi because Belgians favored them TUTSI  Pastoralists  15% of population  Described as “taller, more slender, paler- skinned, thin-lipped, narrow-chinned”  Favored by Belgians who colonized Rwanda Violence escalated upon independence from Belgium in 1962. Hutus wanted to dominate the independent government and killed about 20,000 Tutsi in 1963.

4. Paul Rusesabagina is the manager of the Milles Collines Hotel. He is Hutu. Tatiana is Paul’s wife. She is Tutsi. They have three children.

5. General Bizimungu is head of the Rwandan Armed Forces George Rutaganda is a businessman and leader of an Interhamwe militia group

6. Interhamwe militia group: Hutu paramilitary organization backed by the Hutu government

7. Colonel Oliver is commander of the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces in Rwanda. Jack Daglish is a journalist and photographer who documents the Rwandan genocide.

8. Dube (left) and Gregoire (right) both work at the Milles Collines