We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

Stories from Rwanda

audio cd, 200 pages

English language

Published Sept. 3, 2007 by Blackstone Audio Inc..

ISBN:
978-1-4332-0348-0
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OCLC Number:
154698386

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An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity.

This remarkable debut book chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Though the killing was low-tech--largely by machete--it was carried out at shocking speed: some 800,000 people were exterminated in a hundred days. A Tutsi pastor, in a letter to his church president, a Hutu, used the chilling phrase that gives Philip Gourevitch his title.

With keen dramatic intensity, Gourevitch frames the genesis and horror of Rwanda's "genocidal logic" in the anguish of its aftermath: the mass displacements, the temptations of revenge and the quest for justice, the impossibly crowded prisons and refugee camps. Through intimate portraits of Rwandans in all walks of life, he focuses on the psychological and political …

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Subjects

  • History
  • Unabridged Audio - History
  • History: World
  • Africa - Central
  • Violence in Society
  • History / Africa
  • Africa - General
  • Audiobooks
  • Genocide
  • Rwanda