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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.

An unforgettable firsthand account of a people''s response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity.

This remarkable debut book from Philip Gourevitch 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 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

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be

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      Publisher Picador
      Published 9 April 1999
      ISBN-13 9780312243357
      978-0312243357
      ISBN-10 0312243359
      Also in:
      Genocide and ethnic cleansing Armed conflict

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.

      An unforgettable firsthand account of a people''s response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity.

      This remarkable debut book from Philip Gourevitch 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 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

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