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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... often speak of a million deaths, and they may be right. The dead of Rwanda accumulated at nearly three times the rate of Jewish dead during the Holocaust, It was the most efficient IN THE SOUTHERN hill town of Gikongoro, the electricity ...
... death as royalist tools, while elsewhere they were I by Hutu militias as rapists — to add an extra dash of tribal mockery to the violation of Tutsi women. Quite likely, the Anglican bishop who had instructed the man I met in the Guest ...
... death-fertilized flowers blooming over the corpses, it was still strangely unimaginable. I mean one still had to imagine it. Those dead Rwandans will be with me forever, I expect. That was why I had felt compelled to come to Nyarubuye ...
... death but life that seemed an accident of fate. "I had eighteen people killed at my house," said Etienne Ni- yonzima, a former businessman who had become a deputy in the National Assembly. "Everything was totally destroyed — a place of ...
... death. At a certain moment this happens. One hopes not to die cruelly, but one expects to die anyway. Not death by machete, one hopes, but with a bullet. If you were willing to pay for it, you could often ask for a bullet. Death was ...