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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... spoke this last word inclined me to agree, for the future wife's sake. "This is my problem," he went on. "How am I to attain this goal? You have the opportunity. I have not." He looked around the dark, nearly empty room and held out an ...
... spoke of Homo sapiens, and I heard a subtext. Pygmies were Rwanda's first inhabitants, a forest people, who were generally looked down upon by Hutu and Tutsi alike as a vestigial, aboriginal lot. In the precolonial monarchy, pygmies ...
... spoke of it openly. The week before the massacre at Nyarubuye, the killing began in Rwanda's capital, Kigali. Hut us who opposed the Hutu Power ideology were publicly denounced as "accomplices" of the Tutsis and were among the first to ...
... spoke, with a brisk determination. But before taking his neighbor's advice, and fleeing Kigali in late April of 1994, he said, "I had accepted death. At a certain moment this happens. One hopes not to die cruelly, but one expects to die ...
... spoke with seemed to have a favorite, unanswerable question. For Nkongoli, it was how so many Tut sis had allowed themselves to be killed. For Francois Xavier Nkurun- zrza, a Kigali lawyer, whose father was Hutu and whose mother and ...