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Original Title:	We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
ISBN:	0312243359 (ISBN13: 9780312243357)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Rwanda
Literary Awards:	Guardian First Book Award (1999), Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism (1999), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest (1998), PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers (1999), National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction (1998) Cornelius Ryan Award (1998)

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In April of 1994, the government of Rwanda called on everyone in the Hutu majority to kill everyone in the Tutsi minority. Over the next three months, 800,000 Tutsis were murdered in the most unambiguous case of genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews. Philip Gourevitch's haunting work is an anatomy of the killings in Rwanda, a vivid history of the genocide's background, and an unforgettable account of what it means to survive in its aftermath.

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Title	:	We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Author	:	Philip Gourevitch
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 356 pages
Published	:	September 4th 1999 by Picador (first published September 30th 1998)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Cultural. Africa. War. Politics. Eastern Africa. Rwanda

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I read this book while volunteering in Burundi, a country that has experienced a parallel civil conflict to that of Rwanda, but with much less international attention. The book is full of chilling stories, exposing both the horror of the actions of the Rwanda orchestrators of the genocide, the willing and complicit participants in carrying out the genocide, and the willful inaction and facilitation of the conflict by international actors, including the U.S. government. Most striking to me was

Liked the report you've written; try reading Evil Men, which addresses many of the weaknesses of this book. It tells exactly how to create evil

possibly one of the best books i've read on rwanda. horribly depressing, horribly great, just. absolutely wonderful work. i put it second to The Age of Genocide only because that is possibly the end all book on genocide, because of it's breath, scope, and wonderful, wonderful history. but this is maybe the best book on rwanda i've read. and read again. and again.

I was astoundingly ignorant about what happened after the initial 100-day massacre. This isn't only my fault: Gourevitch shows how Western media - and governments - completely ignored and misrepresented what happened in Rwanda and Zaire. And you don't kill 1,000,000 humans in four weeks without huge long-term fallout. The median age in Rwanda is now 18 years, 43% of the population is aged 14 or under, and 63% of the country lives under the poverty line. 52% of children die before reaching 5

To be honest, Gourevitch's book doesn't sound inviting. What book about genocide could? And its title alone suggests a kind of vicious, heart-stopping sadness that many of us would prefer to turn away from. Which may, in fact, be the point. Either way, Gourevitch's writing won't let you turn away. He tells the story of the Rwandan genocide in a prose so wonderfully crafted and infused with anger and insight as to be nearly hypnotic. From the opening pages, the young reporter confronts his own

It would seem that such a brutal ordeal would be beneath us in the 1990's, the stuff of darker days such as what occurred during the Holocaust and the Cambodian Genocide, but sadly the Rwandan Genocide not only took place less than thirty years ago, but little effort was made initially to stop it. This book is much more than just writing. It's a shocking but necessary piece of history discussing the experiences of those who lived and died back in 1994, as well as what led up to the genocide. If

Obligatory reading for all. We must wake up and start learning from history. At least read the book and try to understand what happened. Determining how many stars to give is impossible - I certainly did not "really like" the book!