"Ściąć wysokie drzewa" refers to the Hotel Rwanda movie - the title translates as "cut down tall trees" - a coded message broadcast by Hutu-friendlty TV stations, starting the Tutsi massacre.
It was written and produced by Otto Knows and vocal is sampled from Wyclef Jean's Million Voices (soundtrack of Hotel Rwanda), but writing credits use his real name Otto Jettman.
Hotel Rwanda, a 2004 film dealing with the genocide that centers on the Hôtel des Mille Collines, a location also seen in Sometimes in April.
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Unlike Hotel Rwanda, which was filmed in South Africa using South African actors, the film was shot in the original location of the scenes it portrays.
it is Greitens' first book and contains a foreword by Paul Rusesabagina, depicted in the film Hotel Rwanda by Don Cheadle, and an introduction by Bobby Muller, co-founder of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
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The difference can be observed by listening to Paul Rusesabagina in the Return to Rwanda feature of a Hotel Rwanda DVD, and to the translator for a survivor of the Nyarubuye massacre in "Frontline" Ghosts of Rwanda.
Fascinated, Pearson interviewed Rusesabagina and wrote the script for Hotel Rwanda, sending it to director Terry George, who fell in love with the story.