Applied for and received political asylum in Belgium in 1996

His story was first told in the book “We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our familes” by Phillip Gourevitch in 1998

Published his own autobiography An Ordinary Man in 2006

Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005

Continues to be an advocate for humanitarian causes and refugee issues around the world

An outspoken critic of the current head of the RPF Paul Kagame saying "Rwanda is today a nation governed by and for the benefit of a small group of elite Tutsis...Those few Hutus who have been elevated to high-ranking posts are usually empty suits without any real authority of their own. They are known locally as Hutus de service or Hutus for hire."

Force Commander of UNAMIR United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda

His actions save over 30,000 Tutsis

Suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and attempted suicide in 2000

Now an outspoken advocate for mental health issues concerning veterans

Testified in the 2004 International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

Convicted of killing the Rwandan Prime Minister and other top government officials and members of the political opposition

Convicted of killing 10 Belgian UN troops

Cleared on charges of conspiring to commit genocide

His trial lasts 6 years and 242 witnesses are heard

Over 50 Trials have finished, convicting 29 people

11 trials are currently underway and 14 are awaiting a start date

13 suspects are still at large

The trail established a new precedent that rape is now considered a component of genocide

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-umnH3GQ8Y

Who influenced Paul’s decisions?

Who influenced Paul’s decisions? If you were in the victim's place, how

would you want witnesses or bystanders to respond?

Who influenced Paul’s decisions? If you were in the victim's place, how

would you want witnesses or bystanders to respond?

What was the global reaction to what was happening in Rwanda?

Who influenced Paul’s decisions? If you were in the victim's place, how

would you want witnesses or bystanders to respond?

What was the global reaction to what was happening in Rwanda?

How did the media portray the events in Rwanda?

Where did it come from and when did it start?

Many theories exist… Was it a mutation of a disease that

monkeys get? Was it from Cameroon? Was it from Haiti or South America and

then traveled to Africa? Many conspiratorial theories exist

about the subject…

Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 70% of the total world population of people living with HIV/AIDS, 80% of the children living with HIV in the world and three quarters of the more than 20 million people who have died of AIDS since the epidemic began.

The Facts…. Every 25 seconds another person in Africa gets

infected with HIV!

The Facts…. Every 25 seconds another person in Africa gets

infected with HIV! Less than half of 1% of Africans with AIDS are

receiving some form of drug therapy.

The Facts…. Every 25 seconds another person in Africa gets

infected with HIV! Less than half of 1% of Africans with AIDS are

receiving some form of drug therapy. In 2003, an estimated 26.6 million people in Sub-

Saharan Africa were living with HIV, including 3.2 million who became infected this year. AIDS killed approximately 2.3 MILLION PEOPLE in 2003

The Face of AIDS in Africa

By the end of this decade it would take 80 000 orphanages, holding 500 orphans each, just to house the children orphaned by AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa alone

How does this disease affect the stability of African Governments?

How does this disease affect the stability of African Governments?

Has the rest of the world responded to the African AIDS epidemic?

The United States spends an estimated $52 Billion on the medical consequences of obesity. This is more than 15 times the amount needed to treat Aids epidemic in Africa.

One days supply of the AIDS therapy drug stavudine costs $6.20 in Uganda as opposed to 56 cents in Brazil where a generic version is produced by the government.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mogTwwepces