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5.0

This book is an incredible emotionally difficult but necessary read. Especiall in a time period where there are eerie genocida parallel currently happening to the Palestinian people in Gaza.

This books really explores and explains the history of the Rwandan Genocide and the events and circumstances that lead up to it so we as reader can under that this was systematic elimination of an entire group of people not mass tribal hysteria.

This was done deliberately and tactically. 

We need to learn this so we can take not of how those same tactics are being used yet while the western world yet again turns a blind eye.

This writing does an incredible job of encapsulation the world that is left after the Genocide and the state of its survivors. He does shy away from the messiness, the horror, or the cruelty.

This book is a necessary read for all those who care about stopping Genocide.

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3.75

Really devestating stories about of the Rwandan genocide, and the consequences of Western country/NGO influence. 

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4.5


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4.5


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3.5

I give this book 3,5 stars not because I didn’t like it or because it was too sad to be enjoyable but because it is outdated. Reading this was hard because I had to constantly remind myself that these were real people most of who are still alive today and still remember seeing their families being murdered by friends and neighbors. Reading about all the guilty people denying anything happened was depressing as well. Overall I am glad I read it though because I only knew that the genocide happened, not how, why, or what happened afterwards.Also I want to add that this book made me very angry at times, because of how everyone that could help ignored this, and the way Rwandans who could help others chose not to or chose to kill.

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4.5


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