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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... machete — it was carried out at dazzling speed: of an original population of about seven and a half million, at least eight hundred thousand people were killed in just a hundred days. Rwandans often speak of a million deaths, and they ...
... machete. He was quite expert at his work, taking big precise strokes that made a sharp hacking noise. The rallying cry to the killers during the genocide was "Do your work!" And I saw that it was work, this butchery; hard work. It took ...
... machete. I don't know where he went." His voice weakened, and caught. "He disappeared." Niyonzima clicked bis tongue, and said, "But the others are still alive. Quite honesdy, I don't understand at all how I was saved." Laurent Nkongoli ...
... , 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-. 23.
... machetes in case anyone escaped when the shooting began — and, in fact, there had been very few escapees from Rwamatamu. An Adventist pastor and his son were said to have worked closely with the mayor in organizing the slaughter at ...