December 7-THE FACE OF COURAGE-Humanitarian Paul Rusesabagina, the real-life hero portrayed in the film "Hotel Rwanda, spoke at Syracuse University last night. As the then manager of a Belgian-owned hotel, he is credited for saving more than a thousand people during a campaign of genocide in Rwanda during the 1990s. At it's peak the genocide in Rwanda claimed 8,000 lives per day. Rusesabagina recalled some of the horrors he witnessed as well as the geo-political climate during the era. "Silence is complicity," he said. "Genocides are never called genocides until it is too late."

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