KIGALI, Rwanda — Paul Rusesabagina became known as a rare hero in one of modern history's ugliest chapters: the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Rwandans in the 1994 genocide. He was credited with saving a number of people and inspired books and a movie.
But today, Rusesabagina is starting his second year in prison as a convicted terrorist in the country he said he once hoped to save.
As questions arose over the years about his exact heroic efforts, Rusesabagina ran afoul of the government of President Paul Kagame, another figure once widely admired but now criticized for increasingly authoritarian practices in his more than two decades of rule.
