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Article: Rwanda hotel manager who offered refuge to thousands will speak at Lamar.
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- The Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, TX)
- Article date:
- March 17, 2007
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Byline: Robert Lopez
Mar. 17--Gregory Maddox was teaching at the University of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania in 1994 when Rwanda was in the throes of genocide. From evacuees, he heard horrific tales of mass slaughter. About 800,000 people, mainly Tutsis, would be killed by Hutu militias over a period of a few months. But one day, while listening to the BBC, Maddox also heard the tale of a hero -- Paul Rusesabagina, who helped shelter more than 1,000 people in the hotel that he managed. "This was a society where people lived together," Maddox, a professor of African history at Texas Southern University in Houston, said in a telephone interview. "Everybody had ...