The Resource We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families : stories from Rwanda, Philip Gourevitch
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families : stories from Rwanda, Philip Gourevitch
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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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (355 pages
- Label
- We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families : stories from Rwanda
- Title
- We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families
- Title remainder
- stories from Rwanda
- Statement of responsibility
- Philip Gourevitch
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1961-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gourevitch, Philip
- Dewey number
- 364.15/1/0967571
- Illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- DT450.435
- LC item number
- .G68 1998
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Genocide
- Rwanda
- Rwanda
- Genocide
- Völkermord
- Rwanda
- Label
- We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families : stories from Rwanda, Philip Gourevitch
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- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (355 pages
- Form of item
- online
- Other physical details
- map)
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1036968161
- Label
- We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families : stories from Rwanda, Philip Gourevitch
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- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (355 pages
- Form of item
- online
- Other physical details
- map)
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1036968161
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