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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... night; the Guest House bar was lit by a half dozen candles, and the eyes of the three soldiers who invited me to drink glowed the color of blood oranges. A single glass of beer was passed, from which I was the last to sip — a ritual ...
... night they cut the Achilles tendons of survivors and went off to feast behind the church, roasting cattle looted from their victims in big fires, and quantities of it around the clock.) And, in the morning, still drunk after whatever ...
... nights, and by day the land is lustrous. After the rains, the skies lilt, the terrain takes on a ragged look beneath the flat haze of the dry season, and in the savannas of the Akagera ! wildfire blackens the hills. One day, when I was ...
... night, and people spoke of it on the radio," Samuel said. "It was only members of Hutu Power parties who went out, and those who weren't participants were called 'enemies.' " On April 6, a few nights after this activity began, Rwanda's ...
... night in a pirogue — an outrageously risky journey, but Samuel didn't mention it. "we got so used to running that when one wasn't running one didn't feel right." Fighting and running gave Manase spirit, a sense of belonging to a purpose ...