Carine Kanimba

Carine Kanimba is a Rwanda-Belgian-American political activist, lawyer and speaker, who is also the daughter of renowned Rwandan opposition figure Paul Rusesabagina. After their parents were presumed killed in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, Carine and her sister Anaise Kanimba were adopted by Mr. Rusesabagina and his wife Taciana Rusesabagina. At the time, Rusesabagina was a hotel manager at the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali, Rwanda and famously sheltered over 1000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the hotel during the Rwanda Genocide. His heroic acts are depicted in the 2004 movie Hotel Rwanda. While her father’s victimization and torture by the Rwandan government has been at the forefront of her activism, Carine has also broadened her focus to include issues of international justice, the protection of political prisoners, and the role of international organizations in holding governments accountable. Quotes At the beginning of the film Hotel Rwanda, one scene illustrates this climate of fear that my parents faced. My father and my mother go to the Hotel des Diplomates to see Paul Rusesabagina. It must have been April 5. They had heard reports that, if a signal was triggered, Tutsis living inside Rwanda could be exterminated. They wanted to flee the country, together with Taciana Rusesabagina, my biological father’s sister. https://www.jambonews.net/en/actualites/20201231-carine-kanimba-in-the-name-of-my-father-paul-rusesabagina-hero-of-the-movie-hotel-rwanda/( Jambo News, December 31, 2020) External links Category:Activists from Rwanda