Jeremy Kuzmarov, author, historian and managing editor of Covert Action Magazine, argues that the Rwandan genocide is a myth, suggesting instead that it was a civil war backed by foreign interests, including the CIA, MI6 and Mossad, as well as various governments.

He points out that the US and UK supported the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) in order to gain control over the Congo's mineral wealth.

I need to disclose a bias prominently in this review: my former co-writer is now sitting in one of Kagame’s jails and is facing a sham trial that would have pleased a Stalin-era judge. Paul Rusesabagina, the real-life hero of the film Hotel Rwanda and the primary author of the nonfiction book An Ordinary Man (which I helped him write) was lured onto a private jet under false pretenses and kidnapped back to Rwanda last August. He is officially charged with “terrorism,” but the charges appear bogus. His real crime was criticizing Kagame’s regime.

— Tom Zoellner, 'The Rwanda Myth'

The 1994 story most people know is Hollywood.

In Hotel Rwanda, Hutu villains hunt Tutsi victims, a hotel manager does what he can, and Kagame's army arrives as the rescuer.

Jeremy calls it a simplistic account.

It leaves out the larger history and the geopolitical intrigues, and it ignores how the US and UK used the RPF for their own agendas in mineral-rich Central Africa. He says the film is "Hollywood fiction infused with a little bit of truth."

His argues that what happened was a civil war with atrocities on both sides, started from outside Rwanda and shaped by Washington, London and Paris.