Rusesabagina told his guests that getting in touch with diplomats and convincing leaders to freeze the assets going to the rebel leaders will help save future generations from genocide.

“They believe they are untouchable and we need to let them know they are not above the law, above regulations, above rules.”

Inspired by Rusesabagina and his story, a group of students from Texas High School in Texarkana drove six hours to be able to hear and meet the hero of Rwanda. The students have spent the last eight weeks studying the Holocaust and contemporary genocide

As a gift, the students pressed their thumbprints into a bowl and presented it to Rusesabagina as their signatures that they will not let his story die.

“It puts it into perspective,” Cannon Ball, 16, said. “We’ve learned about him and saw the movie, but seeing him is incredible.”

Paul Rusesabagina started a foundation to help the women and children affected by the Rwandan Genocide. For more information about his foundation, The Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation, visit www.hrrfoundation.org.

For more information about Darfur, Sudan where a genocide very much like the one that claimed almost one million lives in Rwanda is raging today, visit www.safedarfur.org.