an uncommon path (mini)

For the last week or so I have been reading Ranulph Fiennes amazing book ‘My Heroes’.

It tells the stories of various brave and courageous women and men who did extraordinary things in face of great danger and hardship. The story that most moved me was that of hotelier Paul Rusesabagina - the man who saved just over a thousand Rwandans from the genocide that ripped that nation in 1994. I was moved to tears by the tales of women and children who were violently and brutally hacked to death by family and friends in a killing frenzy that spread through the land that year…

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