Rwandan President Paul Kagame addresses a news conference to conclude the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kigali, Rwanda June 25, 2022. REUTERS/Jean Bizimana
NAIROBI, March 13 - Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Monday said there were discussions about "resolving" the fate of Paul Rusesabagina, who was portrayed as a hero in the Hollywood film "Hotel Rwanda" and is serving a 25-year sentence in Rwanda on terrorism charges. Rusesabagina was sentenced in September 2021 over his ties to an organization opposed to Kagame's rule. He denied all the charges and refused to take part in the trial that he and his supporters called a political sham.
Washington has designated him as "wrongly detained", partly because of what it called the lack of fair trial guarantees. Rusesabagina has U.S. permanent residency rights.over Rusesabagina, but on Monday appeared to suggest that there was room for compromise. "We don't get stuck with our past. We move into the future," Kagame said during a video interview at the Global Security Forum.
Kagame is a great leader but this issue of suppressing his critics he takes it too far