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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... roads. But these were the ravages of war, not of genocide, and by the summer of 1995, most of the dead had been buried. Fifteen months earlier, Rwanda had been the most densely populated country in Africa. Now the work of the killers ...
... road, and they brought stories. Some told how a few miles to the north, in Gishyita, the mayor had been so frantic in his impatience to kill Tutsis that thousands had been slaughtered even as he herded them to the church, where the ...
... only dead people. The bodies fell down in the stream, and I used those bodies as a bridge to cross the water and join the other people in the evenings." In this way, Manase survived. RWANDA HAS GOOD roads — the best in central Africa.
... road to Kibuye is an unpaved mess, a slalom course of steep hairpin tween bone-rattling rocks and red dirt that turns to ! clay in the rain, then bakes to stone-hard ruts and ridges in the sun. That the Kibuye road is in this condition ...
... road, the mountain formed a wall, and on the other side, it plunged into an apparendy vertical banana plantation. The rain dwindled to a beady mist, and I stood outside the designated vehicle, listening to the arrhythmic plink and plonk ...