|
|
"Mature Content Warning!" |
| “ | Georges Rutaganda: Their money is no good to them anymore. Soon, all the Tutsis will be dead. Paul Rusesabagina: You do not honestly believe that you can kill them all? Georges Rutaganda: And why not? Why not? We are halfway there already. |
„ |
| ~ Georges Rutaganda to Paul Rusesabagina. |
Georges Anderson Nderubumwe Rutaganda is the main antagonist of the 2004 drama film Hotel Rwanda, based on the 1994 Rwanda genocide.
He is a Rwandan local goods merchant and commander of the Interahamwe militia, composed of extremist Hutus. He is a fictionalized version of the real life Hutu militant of the same name, one of the key figures in the genocide against the Tutsis that happened during the Rwanda civil war.
He was portrayed by Hakeem Kae-Kazim, who also voiced Benatu Eshu in Vixen and Krogan and Drago Bludvist in Dragons: Race to the Edge.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Hosts the radio broadcast Hutu Power, which he uses to spread hateful propaganda against the Tutsis.
- While it's true that the Tutsi rebels were a threat to the Rwandan government and actually kill President Juvénal Habyarimana, it's apparent that Georges and his Interahamwe militia were already planning to kill various Tutsis, as Paul Rusesabagina finds out early in the film that Rutaganda had bought countless machetes from China, which they later use against them.
- As the Rwanda civil war takes place, while Paul hides many Tutsi refugees inside the Hotel des Mille Colines, his workplace, Georges leads his militia in attacking whole Tutsi communities, killing many Tutsis under the pretext that they are rebels, orphaning thousands of children. No only that, but he and his men even attack orphanages and kill children, who definitely aren't rebels.
- Kidnaps Tutsi women, cages them and lets his men (and himself) rape them because they are "prostitutes and witches", proving how hypocritical he really is, as he hates Tutsis, but has no problem with forcing himself upon them.
- When Paul and his employee Gregoire come to buy him some products for the refugees, he tries to talk Paul out of protecting the Tutsi refugees because his militia is going to kill them all. When Paul asks him why he believes he can kill all of them, Georges replies that he and his men have already killed half of the Tutsi population.
- As Paul and Gregoire prepare to leave his warehouse, he tries to convince Paul to surrender some alleged Tutsi traitors hiding in his hotel in exchange for sparing one or two Tutsis, an offer Paul absolutely declines.
- Realizing that Paul is firm in his beliefs that Hutus and Tutsis are equal, he "recommends" him to take the road by the river to return to the hotel. When Paul and Gregoire do so, they find out the road is filled with countless corpses of the Interahamwe's Tutsi victims.
- Allows his militia to attack the convoys in which Paul, his family and his refugees escape the two times they try to make it behind the Tutsi rebel lines, though Paul, his family and the refugees manage to escape from them unharmed.
- While he seems to have some kind of friendship with Paul Rusesabagina, it's obvious that they have more of a business-like relationship than a friendly one, as Paul firmly opposes Rutaganda's racist views on the Tutsis, especially due to his wife Tatiana and children being of Tutsi descent, but Georges keeps insisting that he side with "his people", inviting him to anti-Tutsi rallies or giving him a Hutu flag. Even before the genocide starts, it's clear that if they see each other as a friend, then it's one-sided on Georges' part, as Paul agrees with his employee Dupe that Georges is a bad man, that he and his men are "fools" and that he only puts up with him due to his business.
- At one point, Georges offers Paul to give him free soft drinks for the children, but this niceness becomes moot considering that he intends to kill all the Tutsis, which would mean killing said children, so he likely said this to be in Paul's good graces.
- The epilogue of the film confirms that 491,000 Tutsis lost their lives because of his actions, which likely included Paul's brothers-in-law Thomas and Fendes, orphaning their daughters, who were adopted by Paul and Tatiana.
Trivia[]
- Ironically, despite his fictionalized version being Pure Evil, the real Georges Rutaganda did something good that was left out in the film: during the genocide, he ordered his Interahamwe soldiers to stop attacking the United Nations convoy carrying Paul Rusesabagina's wife and children, sparing them. However, it should be noted that Rutaganda did this to avoid further interventions from the United Nations and not because of a noble purpose, so had this been included in the film, it wouldn't have likely prevented this version of him from qualifying as it was an action based on pragmatism instead of morality.
External Links[]
- Georges Rutaganda on the Villains Wiki
[]
 Pure Evils
| ||
|
Animated Features Live-Action Features | ||
