This is a shattering recount of Rwanda's 1994 genocide, how it happened and how this tiny, landlocked, African nation is recovering from the mass slaughter of 800,000 of its citizens in a span of two months during that terrible year. The author has clearly spent time in Rwanda, interviewing the villains and... Well, there simply are no heroes in such a story, only survivors. A difficult read, but worthwhile for anyone interested in how these sorts of unconscionable catastrophes occur. (3/5 Stars)
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
This is a shattering recount of Rwanda's 1994 genocide, how it happened and how this tiny, landlocked, African nation is recovering from the mass slaughter of 800,000 of its citizens in a span of two months during that terrible year. The author has clearly spent time in Rwanda, interviewing the villains and... Well, there simply are no heroes in such a story, only survivors. A difficult read, but worthwhile for anyone interested in how these sorts of unconscionable catastrophes occur. (3/5 Stars)
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