Rwandan hero who saved 1,200 lives agrees to visit

THE man who saved more than 1,200 people during one of the world’s worst genocides will visit Ireland for the first time next month.

Paul Rusesabagina, 55, was working in the hotel industry in Rwanda during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

He was the assistant manager of the Sabena Hôtel des Mille Collines before he became the manager of the Hôtel des Diplomates, in Kigali.