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An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity.
This remarkable debut book chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Though the killing was low-tech--largely by machete--it was carried out at shocking speed: some 800,000 people were exterminated in a hundred days. A Tutsi pastor, in a letter to his church president, a Hutu, used the chilling phrase that gives Philip Gourevitch his title.
With keen dramatic intensity, Gourevitch frames the genesis and horror of Rwanda's "genocidal logic" in the anguish of its aftermath: the mass displacements, the temptations of revenge and the quest for justice, the impossibly crowded prisons and refugee camps. Through intimate portraits of Rwandans in all walks of life, he focuses on the psychological and political challenges of survival and on how the new leaders of postcolonial Africa went to war in the Congo when resurgent genocidal forces threatened to overrun central Africa.
Can a country composed largely of perpetrators and victims create a cohesive national society? This moving contribution to the literature of witness tells us much about the struggle everywhere to forge sane, habitable political orders, and about the stubbornness of the human spirit in a world of extremity.
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
September 3, 2007, Blackstone Audio Inc.
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
September 3, 2007, Blackstone Audio Inc.
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
September 3, 2007, Blackstone Audio Inc.
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
September 3, 2007, Blackstone Audio Inc.
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
September 3, 2007, Blackstone Audio Inc.
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We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: stories from Rwanda
2004, Picador/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers
in English
0312243359 9780312243357
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
July 2003, Tandem Library
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We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: stories from Rwanda
2000, Picador
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0330371215 9780330371216
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
September 1, 1999, Picador
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WE WISH TO INFORM YOU THAT TOMORROW WE WILL BE KILLED WITH OUR FAMILIES: STORIES FROM RWANDA
1999, Farrar, Staus and Giroux
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0330371207 9780330371209
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We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda
1998, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
in English
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0374286973 9780374286972
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We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: stories from Rwanda
1998, Picador
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We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: stories from Rwanda
1998, Picador, Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers
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"Decimation means the killing of every tenth person in a population, and in the spring and early summer of 1994 a program of massacres decimated the Republic of Rwanda."
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"Decimation means the killing of every tenth person in a population, and in the spring and early summer of 1994 a program of massacres decimated the Republic of Rwanda."
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