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Title: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
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| We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Picador Average, loses momentum |
I purchased and read this book last year, as I have studied the subject on this one quite extensively.
This book gets off to a good start, but loses interest as the book progresses.
There is also a lack of real-life survivors and witnesses imput, which could have made it more interesting.
The book however shed light onto many of the problems and atrocities that occurred after the genocide - which I wasn't particularly savy about previously - most notablly the problems in the Congo as a result of Genocidaires fleeing and relocating there - and still not losing their blood-lust and total disrespect for life.
Still a good addition to your home library however.
Derek Meade, NSW, Australia |
| We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Picador Never Again, again |
We now know the basic story. Hutu extremists killed Tutsis and the world ignored them. The "International Community" from President Clinton to the Red Cross ignored Rwanda and allowed it to happen.
In Gourevitch's book, he looks not only at those months but also afterwards. The struggle and continued animosity between Tutsis and Hutus led to the tangled web of involvement in the Congolese wars. Mobutu stood on one side; while Kabalia stood on the other.
The work itself is insightful and well-written. However, while he is quick to condemn the Hutu Power and the "international community" (both correct in being condemned) he does little to give similar condemnation of Paul Kagame or his compatriots who are now in charge in Rwanda.
The world stood by and ignored the genocide and all we can do now about it is say "Never Again," again.
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| We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Picador A indictment of the international response to genocide.. |
Those who think "pece at all costs" would be well to read this. There are times when a person, a country, a WORLD, must take action. The Rwandan Genocide was one of those times.
The most sickening aspect of the tragedy of Rwanda--indeed all genocides--are that they were and are preventable.
Philip Gourevitch does a superb job of expressing his outrage over the lack of will displayed by the UN and US to the mass murder of the tutis by the Hutus'.
I highly recommend this book. This book should be required reading in high schools throughout the country. It is a real eye opener. |
| We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Picador Arrogance and Ignorance: How the World Failed Rwanda |
| It's not easy to help other people, let alone other countries. Gourevitch's book shows us how the international "community" managed to misstep over and over again in Rwanda, making an already tragic situation even worse, first through its inaction and then through its misguided charity. What makes Gourevitch's thoroughly researched account of this tragedy so compelling is the way it focuses the reader's attention on the circumstances that made this evil possible. This writer not only looks unflinchingly at the ugliest aspects of humanity, but he persists in peeling back the layers of human stories piled on stories, searching for the truth. As he points out early in the book, "...power consists in your ability to make others inhabit your story of their reality..." and in the case of such terrible human suffering, perhaps healing can come from the courageous effort to insist that this story be the most true account that we can discover. |
| We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Picador Africa is terrible |
| I read this good book, here in Brazil.This book is about the genocide, in Rwanda.Blacks exterminates other blacks, in massive numbers; hundreds of thusands.No religion- animism, christianism or muslin- did something with force to end this genocide.In all times, Africa is terrible. |
| We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Picador Product Description |
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.
In April 1994, the Rwandan government called upon everyone in the Hutu majority to kill each member of the Tutsi minority, and over the next three months 800,000 Tutsis perished in the most unambiguous case of genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews. Philip Gourevitch's haunting work is an anatomy of the war in Rwanda, a vivid history of the tragedy's background, and an unforgettable account of its aftermath. One of the most acclaimed books of the year, this account will endure as a chilling document of our time.
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| We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Picador Amazon.com |
| "Hutus kill Tutsis, then Tutsis kill Hutus--if that's really all there is to it, then no wonder we can't be bothered with it," Philip Gourevitch writes, imagining the response of somebody in a country far from the ethnic strife and mass killings of Rwanda. But the situation is not so simple, and in this complex and wrenching book, he explains why the Rwandan genocide should not be written off as just another tribal dispute. The "stories" in this book's subtitle are both the author's, as he repeatedly visits this tiny country in an attempt to make sense of what has happened, and those of the people he interviews. These include a Tutsi doctor who has seen much of her family killed over decades of Tutsi oppression, a Schindleresque hotel manager who hid hundreds of refugees from certain death, and a Rwandan bishop who has been accused of supporting the slaughter of Tutsi schoolchildren, and can only answer these charges by saying, "What could I do?" Gourevitch, a staff writer for the New Yorker, describes Rwanda's history with remarkable clarity and documents the experience of tragedy with a sober grace. The reader will ask along with the author: Why does this happen? And why don't we bother to stop it? --Maria Dolan |
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