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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... million, at 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 ...
... The ideology of genocide is all of those things, and in Rwanda it went by the bald name of Hutu Power. For those who set about sys- ; an entire people — even a fairly sma unresisting subpopulation of perhaps a million and a quarter men, 17.
Stories from Rwanda Philip Gourevitch. unresisting subpopulation of perhaps a million and a quarter men, women, and children, like the Tutsis in Rwanda — blood lust surely helps. But the engineers and perpetrators of a slaughter like the ...
... a halt by the Rwandese Patriotic Front, a rebel army led by Tutsi refugees from past persecutions, and as the RPF through the country in the summer of 1994, some two million Hutus had fled into exile at the behest of. 20.
Stories from Rwanda Philip Gourevitch. million Hutus had fled into exile at the behest of the same leaders who had urged them to kill. Yet except in some rural areas in the south, where the desertion of Hutus had left nothing but bush to ...