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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... refugee camp that was home to many Rwandan Hutu militiamen, I had watched a man butchering a cow with a machete. He was quite expert at his work, taking big precise strokes that made a sharp hacking noise. The rallying cry to the ...
... to 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.
... refugees, he arranged for them to be evacuated. He also locked up the pharmacy, refusing treatment to the wounded and sick — "because they were Tutsi," Samuel said. Peering out from their confines, the refugees at the hospital watched ...
... refugees, the Tutsi pastors took up a collection, and raised almost four hundred dollars for the policemen. For several days, all was calm. Then, toward evening on April 15, the policemen said they had to leave because the hospital was ...
Stories from Rwanda Philip Gourevitch. found the Tutsi pastors instructing the refugees to prepare for death, "I was very disappointed," Manase said. "I expected to die, and we started looking for anything to defend ourselves with ...