A review by reasie
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
4.0
I was shocked how much this ground-view of the genocide in Rwanda differed from the version I recalled from the Western press of the 90s. Like... way different.
This book is not just a journalistic work, comprised of interviews with survivors and politicians and, it seems, anyone Mr. Gourevitch could get to sit down and talk... it's also a painful lesson in what constitutes a disaster to the international community... what we will turn our heads from, what we will tolerate if it doesn't 'affect' us.
I like that it ends on a bitter hopeful note. I'll be looking for anything I can read from Rwanda today, it's a fascinating country.
This book is not just a journalistic work, comprised of interviews with survivors and politicians and, it seems, anyone Mr. Gourevitch could get to sit down and talk... it's also a painful lesson in what constitutes a disaster to the international community... what we will turn our heads from, what we will tolerate if it doesn't 'affect' us.
I like that it ends on a bitter hopeful note. I'll be looking for anything I can read from Rwanda today, it's a fascinating country.