For those unaware, Rwanda after the genocide has largely been dominated by Paul Kagame (a Tutsi guerrilla leader during the genocide). Kagame has been President of Rwanda for over twenty years.

Paul Rusesabagina has been a critic of Kagame and his government since 1996, when he came to see Kagame’s government as very similar to the Hutu dominated government that had carried out the genocide.

Rusesabagina has made statements that border on conspiracy theories involving the RPF (Kagame’s guerrilla movement and later political party) and its responsibility for the genocide.

Short story: Rusesabagina opposed the genocide by his Hutus, but he also opposed militant actions by Tutsi that were aggravating ethnic tensions in Rwanda.