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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... killers, or by scavengers — birds, dogs, bugs. The more complete figures looked a lot like people, which they were once. A woman in a cloth wrap printed with flowers lay near the door. Her fleshless hip bones were high and her 15 1.
... killers during the genocide was "Do your work!" And I saw that it was work, this butchery; hard work. It took many hacks — two, three, four, five hard hacks—to chop through the cow's leg. How many hacks to dismember a person ...
... killers had been neighbors, schoolmates, colleagues, sometimes friends, even in-laws. The dead had seen their killers training as militias in the weeks before the end, and it was well known that they were training to kill Tutsis; it was ...
... killers looked just as they had intended: invisible. From time to time, mass graves were discovered and excavated, and the remains would be transferred to new, properly consecrated mass graves. Yet even the occasionally exposed bones ...
... killer is made to do it. And the next day it's become a game for him. You don't need to keep pushing him." At Nyarubuye, even the little terracotta votive statues in the sacristy had been methodically decapitated. "They were associated ...