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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... least eight hundred thousand people were killed in just a hundred days. Rwandans 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 ...
... least quietly, as the point of reference from which all other understandings So the pygmy spoke of Homo sapiens, and I heard a subtext. Pygmies were Rwanda's first inhabitants, a forest people, who were generally looked down upon by ...
... least fifty mostly decomposed cadavers covered the floor, wadded in clothing, their belongings strewn about and smashed. Macheted skulls had rolled here and there. The dead looked like pictures of the dead. They did not smell. They did ...
... least, the genocide had been entirely successful: to those who were targeted, it was not 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 ...
... least one person.1 So this person who is not a 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 ...