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Discusses the modern history of Rwanda, the violent events and single-party politics that led to the genocide in 1994, and the after effects in the country as the remaining ninety percent of Rwandans struggled to survive, and includes a timeline and glossary.
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An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable debut book 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...