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The roll of the colonial powers is explained, Belgium's withdrawal from the area Frances politicking and meddling the roll played by neighboring countries like Zaire the ineptitude of the UN, an impotent force for good in the world and even the Catholic Church's roll in dividing communities along ethnic lines. He develops the story from both a political level and also from the viewpoint of ordinary people caught up in the conflict and their personal dilemmas of whether to stay and help as best they can or whether to flee for the safety of their families. It is a mainly first hand account by an author who lived much of the history and knew many of the key players personally. This is a first class page turner of a book which records factual events but reads like a novel. In the end I went for 5 because it really was everything it said it was but unfortunately not everything there was.
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As riveting as it is moving, it is a profound reckoning with humanity's betrayal and its perseverance.įor me, this book was a 9/10 and I had difficulty deciding if that should be 4 stars or 5 stars. Hailed by the Guardian as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of all time, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families is a first-hand account one of the defining outrages of modern history, an unforgettable anatomy of Rwanda's decimation. A year later, Philip Gourevitch went to Rwanda to investigate the most unambiguous genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews. Close to a million people were slaughtered in a hundred days, and the rest of the world did nothing to stop it. In 1994, the Rwandan government orchestrated a campaign of extermination, in which everyone in the Hutu majority was called upon to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real. All at once, as it seemed, something we could have only imagined was upon us - and we could still only imagine it. With an introduction by Rory Stewart Winner of the Guardian First Book award, a first-hand account one of the defining outrages of modern history.