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USAfricaonline.com notes he has become an icon of courage and recipient of numerous awards including the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award. But those recognitions have come alongside a long-running, bitter, public feud between Rusesabagina and Paul Kagame (Rwanda’s president and former head of the Rwandan Patriotic Front).
The fifth lesson of the Rwanda genocide reveals the nakedness of one of the dirty secrets of African leaderships over the past 60 years: the weak-kneed clause of “non-interference” into the “sovereign” issues in other “member states” of the defunct organization of African Unity (OAU), now the African Union. They strive to protect their priviledged ponds of opulence and umbrellas of dictatorship and autocracy.
“We need to do more, and we need to do better, together. We need to move with urgency and purpose to confront this enormous challenge,” he said.
