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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... grenade-flattened buildings, burnt homesteads, shot-up facades, and mortar-pitted roads. But these were the ravages of war, not of genocide, and by the summer of 1995, most of the dead had been buried. Fifteen months earlier, Rwanda had ...
... grenades. And they sat. "Rwandan culture is a culture of fear," Nkongoli went on. "I remember what people said." He adopted a pipey voice, and his face took on a look of disgust: " 'Just let us pray, then kill us,' or 'I don't want to ...
... around the country, collecting accounts of the killing, it almost seemed as if, with the machete, the mam — a club \ few well-placed grenades, and a : the neutron bomb obsolete. "Everyone was called to hunt the enemy," said Theodore Nyi-.
... grenades thrown, missing an arm, or a leg." He still imagined that Mugonero could be spared. By April 12, the hospital was packed with as many as two thousand retugees, and the water lines were cut. Nobody could leave; militiamen and ...
... grenades exploding. "When the dogs heard the cries of the people," he told me, "they too began to howl." Manase managed to make his way to the hospital — foolishly, perhaps, but he felt exposed and wanted to be with his family. He found ...