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What is missing from Gourevitch's account is the how and why of the killings. It is one thing to describe the horror, another to explain the motivations that occasioned the carnage. ... The absence of attention to the history of the country creates a portrait of a genocide that is insensitive to the
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complexity of the circumstances. In essence, Gourevitch's story reduces the butchery to the tale of bad guys and good guys, innocent victims and avatars of hate. His frame of reference is
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in Kibuye prefecture. Gourevitch accused Ntakirutimana of aiding the killings that happened in the complex the next day. Ntakirutimana was eventually convicted by the
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
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The title comes from an April 15, 1994, letter written to Pastor
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as one of the 50 best nonfiction books of the past 25 years.
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The book describes Gourevitch's travels in Rwanda after the
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Philip Gourevitch
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN
0-312-24335-9
OCLC
41712890
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
non-fiction
The New Yorker
Philip Gourevitch
Rwandan genocide
Tutsis
Hutus
Rwandan genocide
Elizaphan Ntakirutimana
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Rwanda
Mugonero
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
The Daily Telegraph
Independent
Observer
Sunday Times
Daily Telegraph
Sunday Telegraph
Literary Review
Spectator
National Book Critics Circle Award

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