Paul Rusesabagina, along with 20 other prisoners, is led through a line of journalists into the courtroom on a Friday morning in March, wearing handcuffs and a mask. I recall it as a singular atrocity. “To remind them that we also exist.”. N.B. The time has come for us to use any means possible to bring about change in Rwanda, as all political means have been tried and failed. You’re from there and you have been covering East Africa for The Times for years. The article was written by Mr. Walsh. Kagame faces no serious challenge to his rule and continues to tighten his grip on power. Special thanks to Sam Dolnick, Mikayla Bouchard, Lauren Jackson, Julia Simon, Mahima Chablani, Nora Keller, Sofia Milan, Desiree Ibekwe, Laura Kim, Erica Futterman, Shreeya Sinha and Anna Holland.Special thanks to PBS Frontline. Mr. George’s “Hotel Rwanda,” released in 2004, was lauded by critics and Hollywood royalty. And he responds to these harassments by making a very big decision. Mr. Rusesabagina, speaking in jail, said he believed he had been flying to Burundi. A new, Tutsi-led government, headed by the rebel leader, Mr. Kagame, was in charge. “He delivered himself here,” said Rwanda’s spy chief, Brig. He was just gleeful. —and has actually been arrested in the Rwandan capital Kigali. And our main objective was to attract attention. And so what do you make of what the justice minister has just told you? All those who were supposed to be Tutsi were seated in one line. We have Rusesabagina at 11. They will have to be healed one way or another if Rwanda is going to move forward. (Sam Ngendahimana) ... For news tips and story ideas please WhatsApp +250 788 310 999 ... Latest. At the Los Angeles premiere, Angelina Jolie, Harrison Ford and Matt Damon posed with Mr. Rusesabagina on the red carpet. They stole his laptop and documents. Abdi Latif Dahir, East Africa correspondent for The Times. And given how other critics of Kagame and his government have been treated, I just couldn’t help but wonder if this was going to be his last interview that he ever does. And one of the first assignments I took was to go from my base in Kenya to Rwanda. Neighbors killed neighbors. General Nzabamwita dismissed any suggestion of illegality because, he said, the United States and Belgium had been cooperating with his investigation all along. That’s exactly right, Michael. This is The Daily. Today, we look at what the imprisonment of Mr. Rusesabagina tells us about Rwanda. And these divisions at some point will have to be reconciled. After “Hotel Rwanda,” Mr. Rusesabagina sold his taxi, signed up with a speaking agency, and traveled the world warning of genocide. Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle), the manager of Sabena Hôtel des Mille Collines, is Hutu but his wife, Tatiana (Sophie Okonedo), is Tutsi. The Daily is made by Theo Balcomb, Lisa Tobin, Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Annie Brown, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Larissa Anderson, Wendy Dorr, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Stella Tan, Alexandra Leigh Young, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, Luke Vander Ploeg, Sindhu Gnanasambandan, M.J. Davis Lin, Austin Mitchell, Neena Pathak, Dan Powell, Dave Shaw, Sydney Harper, Daniel Guillemette, Hans Buetow, Robert Jimison, Mike Benoist, Bianca Giaever, Liz O. Baylen, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Rachelle Bonja, Alix Spiegel, Diana Nguyen, Marion Lozano and Soraya Shockley. [? Paul Rusesabagina was lauded as a hero during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, credited with saving the lives of more than 1,200 people he sheltered at … In at least six countries, Rwandan exiles have been harassed, assaulted or killed, as part of an apparent covert campaign targeting Mr. Kagame’s most nettlesome detractors. Tensions build for two or three years, and suddenly in 1994 they explode into this genocide. To my right below, I can see the pool where in those tragic days in 1994, those who had lived in the hotel actually started drinking from it for survival. Above, refugees from Rwanda near Goma, Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, in 1994, that was plagued by an epidemic of cholera. Two, he made good on his promise. In February Mr. Mihigo, 38, was found dead in police custody. Mr. Rusesabagina published a memoir, “An Ordinary Man,” that contained sharp criticisms of Mr. Kagame’s Rwanda — “A nation governed by and for the benefit of a small group of elite Tutsis,” he wrote. “It is another Rwanda,” Mr. Rusesabagina said. Abdi, thank you very much. And I went over there to report on the fallout from that genocide that was still taking place. I eat on time. “A man who sold the soul of the Rwandan Genocide to amass medals” read one article. He went for his Covid test, bought his etiquette. Now he has been imprisoned by the Rwandan government on terrorism charges. He had been invited by a friend to speak in Burundi, but when he landed, he realized he was in Rwanda. And he pledges support for this armed rebel group made up of Hutu refugees called the National Liberation Forces, also known as the F.L.N. And in London, the Metropolitan Police come to a number of Rwandan exiles and warn them that they are being hunted by Rwandan government agents who are trying to kill them. The president is reported to have said, “it’s a matter of time. What he has to account for is, one, he declared war. I was actually not coming here. And from my room, I can see this beautiful view of Kigali, all these undulating terrains. He outlaws any public mention of that distinction. Particularly, I think it was being delivered to all the Kagame critics all across the world. When he boarded a flight from Chicago to Dubai on Aug. 26, Mr. Rusesabagina provided his family with scant details. He’s attacking his reputation abroad, and he’s also saying that Kagame should be prosecuted for war crimes. Actually executed it right from the planning to full execution, when he landed in Kigali. And so Paul Rusesabagina and his family took that as a message from the government that we are watching you. So a few decades pass with the Tutsis living abroad in refugee camps. Its roots really went back decades to the colonial period in Rwanda. Pictures were moved around and sheets were removed from the bed. We bump elbows as a way of greeting. You know, it just showed for me, it just showed the political reality in Rwanda and how exiled opponents were very much tired or angry at the government of Paul Kagame, basically turned to more extreme measures. That’s it for The Daily. In an address to those groups in 2018, recorded in a video now widely circulated by the government, Mr. Rusesabagina says that politics has failed in Rwanda. Two million Rwandan refugees had poured into neighboring countries. Mr. Rusesabagina’s apprehensions about his safety had vanished, and he bought a plot to build a house. How I got here, that is a surprise. And as the colonial period comes to an end in the late 1950s, the Hutus claim power, and effectively take over the country, pushing hundreds of thousands of Tutsis into exile abroad. This determination had a life beyond the film. Some were accused of having participated in the genocide. Hotel Rwanda. So many Rwandan Hutus fled across the border into neighboring Congo, because they were afraid to come home. I eat what each and [INAUDIBLE] Rwandian can eat. Kidnapped - 9News - Latest news and headlines from Australia and the world. Wait. Since 1994, he said, “nothing has changed” in Rwanda. How did that happen? When you declare war, at some point you need to accept that the other party with whom you are launching your war is also going to fight back. Right, and this movie, as I recall, was a very big event in Hollywood and in our understanding of Rwanda. Rwanda is today a nation governed by and for the benefit of a small group of Tutsis. Paul Rusesabagina was lauded as a hero during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, credited with saving the lives of more than 1,200 people he sheltered at his hotel — a tale of steely determination that was immortalized in the 2004 film “Hotel Rwanda.”. People who even fled the country, went to exile being followed into exile to kill them. The government was basically using that 2018 video, where Paul Rusesabagina pledges support for the F.L.N., to justify arresting him on terrorism charges. Our theme music is by Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsverk of Wonderly. When the audience cheered during a scene that showed Mr. Kagame’s face, the president chuckled. A seat reserved to Rusesabagina who did not appear in the court.The judges resolved that the trial will go on with Paul Rusesabagina, a key suspect, in absentia. A quarter century on, the genocide still casts a long shadow inside Rwanda, where the truth about how it unfolded is bitterly contested. quarter century on, the genocide still casts a long shadow, a five-star sanctuary in a land of bloodshed, international tribunal on war crimes in Rwanda. The F.B.I. I’m just going to put these for recording. Rusesabagina later allied with other groups of Rwandan exiles and a splinter group of FDLR to form MRCD, for which he was the president. “The time for us has come to use any means possible to bring about change,” he said. 8h. During a news conference, Texas’ governor Greg Abbott resorted to advising homeowners without power to manually turn off their water supply to avoid having pipes freeze, burst, and flood their homes. So Paul Kagame is this Rwandan Tutsi who has been raised in exile, in refugee camps in neighboring Uganda. “They were only surprised how we could conduct such an operation, and very successfully,” he said. He arguably becomes the most famous Rwandan on the planet. He bribed army generals with dollars and cigars. They return to Rwanda to try to seize control. I tell you, half of my life I’ve been living in the trenches, not sure of living to the next day. The death of Patrick Karegeya, a former Rwandan spy chief and critic of Mr. Kagame found strangled in a South African hotel room on Jan. 1, 2014, signaled yet again how far the president was prepared to go to quash dissent. The Rwandan government intensified its campaign. So it all feels like a ticking bomb. He looked really tired. Prosecution on Wednesday, March 31, revealed in detail to court how Paul Rusesabagina financed terrorism activities during his reign as president of MRCD. Yeah. I’m doing very well. So far, so good. I don’t know where I was. Paul Rusesabagina being escorted in handcuffs and in a prison uniform to a courtroom last year in Kigali, Rwanda. In fact, the plane was operated by GainJet, a Greece-based charter company frequently used by Mr. Kagame. Others, like Mr. Karegeya, had been confidantes and even friends of Mr. Kagame. Thanks for taking the time. Paul Rusesabagina, the polarising hero of the hit movie ’Hotel Rwanda,’ failed to show up for his trial after informing prison authorities he was quitting the process as he did not expect justice. He removes it from the government ID cards, and he rips it out of all school textbooks. In Kenya, a former minister was shot dead in his car. Yes, Paul Rusesabagina for now, he lingers in a prison in Rwanda. Whoever betrayed the nation cannot escape the consequences.”. Experts say his situation is emblematic of Rwanda under Mr. Kagame: As the ruling party totally dominates the political space, some exiled opponents have turned to more extreme measures. 'Hotel Rwanda' hero Paul Rusesabagina, centre, at the Nyarugenge Court of Justice in Kigali last October. Mr. Rusesabagina applied for political asylum, drove a taxi, and bought a house in the Brussels suburbs. Stay on top of Rwanda latest developments on the ground with Al Jazeera’s fact-based news, exclusive video footage, photos and updated maps. Let’s talk a little bit about the charges and the issues that you’re facing in court. The pastor could not be reached for comment. In June 2007, Mr. Rusesabagina reported Mr. Kagame to an international tribunal on war crimes in Rwanda, for atrocities he said had been committed by Mr. Kagame’s troops during the genocide. So we mainly focused on the very fact that there was a need for change and that these stateless people, ourselves, needed to come back home. So it should not be a problem that Rwanda did this. The only better future for Rwanda and the region would be to silence guns. Oh, absolutely. In an email, a spokesman for Belgium’s SGRS intelligence service said its head, Claude Van de Voorde, had “NEVER congratulated the Rwandan authorities” on the arrest. The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. He decides that Belgium is no longer safe, and that he wants to move to the United States. So after the interview with Paul Rusesabagina, I was able to meet with two top government officials who had been behind his arrest. Rest of World News: President Paul Kagame of Rwanda on Wednesday praised a new French report documenting France's role in the 1994 genocide as "a good thing," welcoming e Welcome to the program. “With guns around him, he’s saying that in the belly of the beast,” said his son, Trésor Rusesabagina, 28, speaking from the United States. I do not know where. Supporters, both in Hollywood and the Rwandan opposition, argue that he cannot receive a fair trial. They say in English that East-West, North-South, home is always best. Mr. Rusesabagina was a leader of a coalition of opposition groups, all in exile, that includes an armed wing. The few Hutus in power were “known locally as Hutus de service, or ‘Hutus for hire.’”. We’re exposed to death every day and night. First, his house is broken into. So from then on, at least in public, Rwandans may no longer identify themselves as belonging to one group or another. And in these camps, some Hutus are actually forming militias and agitating to go home. Do you want to say something about it, and then I can get on to my questions? Are we socially distanced enough for us to remove our masks? Because the things he did this government wanted him to come and answer for the things he was doing. And the genocide is over. Until the time when I landed, I thought I was landing in Bujumbura. Right after I sat in front of him is when I noticed that there was a camera hanging on top of the room where he was. They take out their eyes, and they start to kill, kill, kill. I have some very good news. Months later, Mr. Kagame delivered his own broadside. Absolutely. And so Paul Kagame and Paul Rusesabagina, you can see them as symbols of the divisions in the country. If you are a homeowner, there should be a location, typically outside, maybe near the curbside, where you have the ability to physically turn off the water supply to your house. Admiring articles likened him to Oskar Schindler, the German businessman who saved 1,100 Jews from the Nazis. Some start to disappear and even die. —this was all legal, this was all justified, and this was not a kidnapping. Mr. Kagame’s reputation was further tarnished by a 2010 report from the United Nations human rights body that accused Rwandan soldiers and allied militias of widespread rape, killings of tens of thousands of civilians, and recruitment of child soldiers in eastern Congo. Shortly after that, at the end of December 2018, Rusesabagina appeared in a recorded video in which he claimed responsibility for these attacks, incited Rwandans to join the war against the “Kagame army” and pledged his “unreserved support” to the FLN.. Paul Rusesabagina is very quickly becoming a public enemy of Rwandan President Kagame based on speeches and the publication of a memoir. Two years later, Mr. Rusesabagina received warnings that his life was in danger and his passport might be confiscated. Its objective, he said, was to highlight the plight of “millions” of Rwandan refugees and exiles, like him, who remain trapped outside the country, more than a quarter century after the genocide. Declan Walsh and Abdi Latif Dahir contributed reporting. This group was at the time being accused by the Rwandan government of killing innocent Rwandans, kidnapping people, looting property along the southern borders of the country. Because I don’t believe somebody should be a refugee forever. Many Hutus lived under a pall of suspicion that they bore collective responsibility for atrocities carried out by Hutu militiamen. How have you been? And suddenly—. There are a lot of shades of gray.”, For weeks, the mystery has been how Mr. Rusesabagina, a Belgian citizen and American permanent resident, was lured to Rwanda from his home in Texas. Many years when I just— when I just say, OK, maybe things are going to improve and be better. By Simon Wohlfahrt (AFP) Paul Rusesabagina, the polarising hero of the hit movie "Hotel Rwanda," refused Wednesday to participate in his trial, as an American citizen testified that he had financed rebel activities against his government. Mr. Rusesabagina had some influential backers. So my photographer Cyril and I head to the headquarters of the Rwanda Investigation Bureau, which is kind of like their version of the F.B.I. Alexander Joe/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. And so by the time I got to Rwanda a few years later, Kagame was in the throes of this effort to rebuild the country. He’s basically lost everything. That’s why I told you that this was one of the best intelligence operations. Police escorting Mr. Rusesabagina into a van after his pre-trial court appearance on Monday.Credit...Cyril Ndegeya for The New York Times, By Abdi Latif Dahir, Declan Walsh, Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Ruth Maclean. So what happens next? We got Paul Rusesabagina here. Hosted by Michael Barbaro; produced by Bianca Giaever and Daniel Guillemette, with help from Diana Nguyen; edited by Marc Georges and Larissa Anderson; and engineered by Chris Wood. By and large, they were. It had only been five years since the genocide. In January 2018, months after Mr. Kagame had been re-elected with 99 percent of the vote, Mr. Rusesabagina tried to enlist a second American president to his cause. A government official published a book that purported to tell Hotel Rwanda’s “real story.”. But the world came to know the story, and people everywhere can recognize heroism. “It engenders cutting them more slack.”, Inside Rwanda, critics were also vanishing or dying mysteriously. 05:32 GMT-05:00. He is celebrated by people like Oprah Winfrey. Oh, great. So in the family’s mind, and in his mind, these break-ins and this attempt to run him off the road feel like a coordinated campaign of harassment, that they suspect can be traced back to President Kagame? 5 of 7 6 of 7 FILE - In this Tuesday, April 22, 2014, file photo, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame listens to a question while participating in a panel discussion on … It was edited by Marc George and Larissa Anderson, and engineered by Chris Wood. Members of the Rwanda National Congress opposition party protesting the killing of Patrick Karegeya, an outspoken critic of President Kagame, in 2014. Well I was taken somewhere. He essentially admitted that the Rwandan government had been tracking Paul Rusesabagina’s movements. So here’s this guy who nobody knew about before the movie. “It is time to attempt our last resort.”. Now Mr. Rusesabagina is back in Rwanda, but this time under arrest, in a spartan cell in Kigali’s central police station, where he sleeps in a simple bed draped in a mosquito net. The Rwandan police arrested Diane Shima Rwigara, a leading critic of President Paul Kagame, charging her with forgery. In 2014 Kizito Mihigo, a popular gospel singer, was accused of treason over a song that drew attention to the death of all Rwandans, including moderate Hutus, since 1994 — challenging an official narrative of a “Tutsi genocide.”. “An island of fear in a sea of fire,” Mr. Rusesabagina once called it. But at the same time, he greeted me warmly. And I want to say for the record from the beginning, that you are doing this out of your own will and out of your own volition. It wasn’t about a political event to us. And then I asked him about what brought him there, his political opposition to Kagame, including his support for the militia group, the F.L.N. Elections for new Olympic Committee set for May 8 8h. Thus I plead my unreserved support that National Liberation Forces launches against the Kagame army in order to free the Rwandan people. Do not. And it’s because of Paul Rusesabagina that when the genocide ends everyone inside the hotel makes it out alive. We know that we can reach you any time. The Hotel des Mille Collines, in the heart of Kigali, has been overtaken by newer, fancier hotels. Reports about the slaughter are coming out, but nothing happens. He starts to win elections by improbable margins, like 99 percent of the vote. Later he courts some of the stars of the movie, like the actor Don Cheadle, who he invites to his palace in Rwanda. In April 2005, for the Rwandan premiere, Mr. George flew from the United States to Brussels to rendezvous with Mr. Rusesabagina and his wife for the flight to Kigali. Maybe I should give you the chance, first of all. He spent the first three days of captivity at an unknown location, blindfolded and bound, where he was interrogated “not much,” he said. And given that Paul Rusesabagina is now inside a Rwandan prison for what could be a very long time, where does that leave them? We are led to this room. From The New York Times, I’m Michael Barbaro. “We are not a terrorist organization,” he said. The FLN is not a terrorist organization. I will get you the money. He’s being true to the humanitarian figure the world knows him to be. The justice minister was there to basically say—. They give me food. He goes on the media circuit in the U.S. Rwandan officials say Mr. Rusesabagina’s true purpose was to coordinate with armed groups based in Burundi and Congo. The witness, Prof. Michelle Martin, affiliated to California State University, Fullerton, who was a volunteer with Paul Rusesabagina's Hot ... Latest News. “I request your support in liberating Rwandan people,” he wrote President Trump. And you typically need a formal extradition process for repatriating someone. When you’re not satisfied by what is going on, then you’ve got your position. Gen. Joseph Nzabamwita, with a smile. Mr. Cheadle was incredulous. “An Ordinary Man,” Celebrated and Derided. And now suddenly he’s in the White House, telling his story to President Bush and being celebrated across the U.S. Months later, Mr. Rusesabagina delivered the video address that spoke of change “by any means possible,” which Rwanda’s government calls proof of his guilt. I’m an old man, and I need to be safe, to try to be safe. The 66-year-old Paul Rusesabagina, once praised for saving hundreds of ethnic Tutsis from Rwanda’s 1994 genocide while a hotel manager, faces nine … Donors lavished aid on his government, which cut poverty, grew the economy and promoted women leaders. His family insists that he cannot speak freely. ... Dr Michelle Martin, an academic who worked as a voluntary policy advisor with Paul Rusesabagina’s Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation (HRRF) testified on Wednesday while Lt. Col. Noel Habiyaremye, a former fighter with the FDLR, testified on Thursday. Paul Rusesabagina went from the world’s most famous Rwandan to a prisoner of his political nemesis, President Paul Kagame, whose government accuses the … Could you tell us a little bit about how you got here? Is that right? Family photos of Mr. Rusesabagina in the 2010s. And so how does Rwanda’s president, Paul Kagame, respond to all this? Paul Kagame with a United Nations officer in Byumba, Rwanda in 1994, when he was leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front. He believed he was being flown to Burundi to talk to church groups. I took my flight, [? Mr. Rusesabagina, for his part, insisted that his group was “not a terrorist organization,” even if its components include an armed group. And living there gives him the space to continue his campaign criticizing the government of Rwanda. In Rwanda, though, Mr. Kagame seemed to appreciate the film. And we are brought inside. After “Hotel Rwanda,” Mr. Rusesabagina sold his taxi, signed up with a speaking agency, and traveled the world warning of genocide. His wife, Josephine, said he had been shot in the back. They cut off the arm. In a jailhouse interview with Abdi Latif Dahir, Mr. Rusesabagina said he was duped into an arrest. The Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Pause Explained. I will give you $100,000 francs, I swear. He does many things around FLN. Mr. Rusesabagina declined to board at the last minute. But only she was at the gate. Yeah, after those three days, I have been treated very, very well. There were also credible and confirmed reports that some of President Kagame’s soldiers, the Tutsi rebels, had also carried out violence against civilians. But during colonialism, people have identity cards that identify them as either Hutu or Tutsi. Here’s what else you need to know today: A dangerous new winter storm was headed for Texas on Wednesday night, even as the state struggled to restore electricity from the last storm. And then in 2005—, Paul has insisted, quote, “I’m not a hero. We have changed the dancers, but the music remains the same.”. He was re-elected with 95 percent of the vote. At the city’s second, smaller airport he boarded a private jet that he believed was headed to Bujumbura, Burundi. Well. His forces attacked. “And the beast can bite at any time.”. And Rusesabagina, who is himself a Hutu, uses his wiles and his charm and the resources at his disposal to prevent militiamen from entering the hotel and killing his guests. I was tied. There are some signs that he is, for all of that, quite a harsh leader. One of them is—, And whenever Paul Rusesabagina is calling for change in Rwanda—. I’m probably not going to do that.’”. So they are very kind. That is the only thing that is keeping us alive. And Paul Kagame was proving to be a very efficient administrator, and in some ways a model leader. He traveled to Africa with a congressional delegation and established a nonprofit, the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation, that accrued $241,242 from 2005 to 2007, according to tax filings. Yeah. It was a huge shock. Rwanda had no need for “manufactured” heroes “made in Europe or America,” he said. And all the while, thousands of Hutu refugees are still living in camps in the Congo and in other neighboring countries, sometimes in pretty tough conditions, decades after they left Rwanda. There is no country that I know which will turn one cheek, you slap, then turn the other cheek, you slap, then turn the other cheek— continue turning cheeks for you to slap. We have stood by for so long. And that is the results of busted pipes. “I thought that things had changed,” he said from his cell this past week. Even at that point, Michael, there are some grumbles about Kagame. It was a scary message, honestly, to listen to. Not long ago Mr. Rusesabagina, 66, was the toast of America, feted by Oprah Winfrey, awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom and earning large fees for his speeches around the world — a human rights icon who warned about the horrors of genocide and offered a living example of standing up to it. As far as people are concerned, Rwanda has been through a terrible time, and Kagame is really the country’s best hope for a new beginning. And it was a shock. I had a warm welcome here. 1999. But he could be evasive and contradictory. He battled to protect his wife, Tatiana, a Tutsi. As I said, our message was a wake-up call to the international community, international organizations, foreign countries, and Rwanda itself to remind that we also exist. “He said he had been warned not to come to Kigali.”. He writes a letter to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, recommending that war crime charges be brought against Kagame. Viva justice, peace and democracy for all of us. In Britain, police warned two dissidents they faced an “imminent threat” from Rwanda’s government. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/podcasts/the-daily/hotel-rwanda-paul-rusesabagina-trial.html. Paul Rusesabagina, the house manager. no ?] Yes, sir. Amnesty International promoted the film and it won three Academy Award nominations, including best actor for Don Cheadle, who played Mr. Rusesabagina. In Kenya, a former Rwandan minister is found shot dead in his car. Well, in the beginning Paul Kagame likes the movie Hotel Rwanda. And he knows that he’s playing with fire. 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