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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
by Philip Gourevitch  
Powells.com Staff Pick I just finished rereading We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families because after reading Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning I thought that the atrocities committed in Rwanda might make more sense to me. There are eerie...
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Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
by Romeo Dallaire Publisher Comments For the first time in the United States comes the tragic and profoundly important story of the legendary Canadian general who "watched as the devil took control of paradise on earth and fed on the blood of the people we were supposed to protect." When...
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Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwanda Genocide and the International Community
by Linda Melvern Publisher Comments Planning the Rwanda Genocide. Published on the tenth anniversary of the horrific genocide in Rwanda, an expert witness tells the first full story of the massacre's planning, with damning details of Western inaction, apathy and conspiracy....
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Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda
by Michael Barnett
Publisher Comments Why was the UN a bystander during the Rwandan genocide? Do its sins of omission leave it morally responsible for the hundreds of thousands of dead? Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda...
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Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak
by Jean Hatzfeld Publisher Comments "To make the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda is a painful task that we have no right to shirk—it is part of being a moral adult."—Susan Sontag In the late 1990s, French author and journalist Jean Hatzfeld made several journeys into...
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From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi: Our Embassy Years During Genocide (Focus on American History)
by Robert Krueger Publisher Comments In 1994, while nations everywhere stood idly by, 800,000 people were slaughtered in eight weeks in Rwanda. Arriving as U.S. Ambassador to neighboring Burundi a few weeks later, Bob Krueger began drawing international attention to the genocide also...
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Order of Genocide : Race, Power, and War in Rwanda (06 Edition)
by Scott Straus Book News Annotation While agreeing with the consensus view that the mass killings of Tutsis in Rwanda in the 1990s were genocide of a very modern form, rather than simply the eruption of "age-old tribal hatreds," Straus (political science, U. of Wisconsin at Madison...
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Rwanda Means the Universe (06 Edition)
by Louise Mushikiwabo Publisher Comments Mushikiwabo is a Rwandan working as a translator in Washington when she learns that most of her family back home has been killed in a conspiracy meticulously planned by the state. First comes shock, then aftershock, three months of it, during which her...
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Machete Season : Killers in Rwanda Speak (05 Edition)
by Jean Hatzfeld Publisher Comments During the spring of 1994, in a tiny country called Rwanda, some 800,000 people were hacked to death, one by one, by their neighbors in a gruesome civil war. Several years later, journalist Jean Hatzfeld traveled to Rwanda to interview ten participants...
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Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey
by Fergal Keane Synopsis Fergal Keane was the reporter for the BBC's "Panorama" television documentary on Rwanda. This book, by Keane, is an account of the history of the country, including the colonial period, and an analysis of what led to one of the greatest human tragedies...
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An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography
by Paul Rusesabagina and Tom Zoellner Publisher Comments The riveting life story of Paul Rusesabagina — the man whose heroism inspired the film Hotel Rwanda. As his country was being torn apart by violence during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina — the "Oskar Schindler...
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Justice on the Grass: Three Rwandan Journalists, Their Trial for War Crimes, and a Nation's Quest for Redemption
by Dina Temple-Raston Publisher Comments The 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which more than 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu were massacred in just 100 days, was an unparalleled modern-day slaughter. How does a nation pick up the pieces after the killing has stopped? In a gripping narrative that...
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This Voice in My Heart: A Genocide Survivor's Story of Escape, Faith, and Forgiveness
by Gilbert Tuhabonye Publisher Comments With nowhere to run, I burrowed my way underneath a smoking mound of bodies Gilbert Tuhabonye is a survivor. More than ten years ago the centuries-old battle between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes of Africa came to his school. Fueled by hatred, the Hutus...
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Conspiracy To Murder : Rwandan Genocide (04 Edition)
by Linda Melvern Synopsis Voted the Best Book on Africa by "Foreign Affairs" and Outstanding Academic Title in 2004 by "Choice," "Conspiracy to Murder" is a gripping account of the Rwandan genocide, one of the most appalling events of the twentieth century. Linda Melvern's...
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Antecedents To Modern Rwanda
by Jan Vansina Publisher Comments To understand the genocide and other dramatic events of Rwanda's recent past, one must understand the history of the earlier realm. Jan Vansina provides a critique of the history recorded by early missionaries and court historians and provides a bottom...
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This Voice in My Heart: A Runner's Memoir of Genocide, Faith, and Forgiveness
by Gilbert Tuhabonye Publisher Comments Gilbert Tuhabonye is a survivor. More than ten years ago, he lay buried under a pile of burning bodies. The centuries–old battle between Hutu and Tutsi tribes had come to Gilbert's school. Fueled by hatred, the Hutus forced more than a hundred...
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Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology Among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania
by Liisa Helena Malkki Publisher Comments In this study of Hutu refugees from Burundi, driven into exile in Tanzania after their 1972 insurrection against the dominant Tutsi was brutally quashed, Liisa Malkki shows how experiences of dispossession and violence are remembered and turned into...
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Ordinary Man : Autobiography (06 Edition)
by Paul Rusesabagina Publisher Comments The remarkable life story of the man who inspired the film Hotel Rwanda Readers who were moved and horrified by Hotel Rwanda will respond even more intensely to Paul Rusesabaginas unforgettable autobiography. As Rwanda was thrown into chaos during the...
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Re Imaging Rwanda
by Johan Pottier Publisher Comments The tragic conflict in Rwanda and the Great Lakes in 1994-1996 attracted the horrified attention of the world's media. Journalists, diplomats and aid workers struggled to find a way to make sense of the bloodshed. Johan Pottier's troubling study shows...
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Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire (Women in Africa and the Diaspora)
by Marie Beatr Umutesi Publisher Comments In this firsthand account of inexplicable brutality, day-to-day suffering, and survival, Marie Beatrice Umutesi sheds light on the other genocide that targeted the Hutu refugees of Rwanda after the victory of the Rwandan Patriotic Front in 1994. Umutesi...
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