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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... 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.
... thing. The ran- added to the affront of the place. I couldn't settle on any meaningful response: revulsion, alarm, sorrow, grief, shame, incomprehension, sure, but nothing truly meaningful. I just looked, and I took photographs, because ...
... things that happened here? The people aren't good. If the people were good, the country might be OK," Joseph told me that his brother and sister had been killed, and he made a : with his tongue against his teeth. "The country is empty ...
... things he said to me was "I forget bit by bit," it quickly became clear that he hadn't forgotten as much as he might have liked. Samuel worked as a medical orderly in the hospital. He had landed the job in 1991, when he was twenty-five ...
... things." He said, "Here's a father with three sons who are doctors and two other children who work in international finance. This is in a country that didn't have a single person with a bachelor's degree in 1960. Of course everyone ...