We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. |
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... asked my name in stern, robotic English, each syllable precise and abrupt. I told him, "Philip." "Ah." He clutched my hand. "Like in Charles Dickens." "That's Pip," I said. "Great Expectations," he pronounced. He dropped my hand. His ...
... asked the Hutu Power mayor how they might be spared, he suggested that they seek sanctuary at the church. They did, and a few days later the mayor came to kill them. He came at the head of a pack of soldiers, policemen, militiamen, and ...
... 1991, when he was twenty-five. I asked him about his life in that time that Rwandans call "Before." He said, "We were simple Christians." That was all. I might have been who didn't interest him. It was as it' his first 25 2.
... asking them in the name of the Lord to intercede on their behalf. "And the response came," Samuel said. "It was Dr. Gerard who announced it: 'Saturday, the sixteenth, at exactly nine o'clock in the morning, you will be attacked.' " But ...
... asking that Pastor Ntakimtimana be brought to justice for his conduct during the Mugonero massacre. "After several months," one of the letter's signers told me, "an answer came from Thomas E. Donilon, Assistant Secretary of State for ...