In 1994, the Rwanda government began killing its Tutsi minority people and 800,000 were murdered. Gourevitch details the genocide's background and aftermath.
Genocide
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Author:Gourevitch, PhilipSummary: -
Author:Murray, Scott W.Summary:Understanding Atrocities is a wide-ranging collection of essays bridging scholarly and community-based efforts to understand and respond to the global, transhistorical problem of genocide. The essays in this volume investigate how...
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Author:Macgill, ChristineSummary:Every immigrant that comes to Canada has a story. This book captures ten of those stories and the remarkable resiliency and fortitude of the human spirit. In 1994 one of the worst genocides in human history took place in Rwanda--over...
- Author:Editors, Charles RiverSummary:
Among some of history's famines, the Holodomor's death toll is considerably lower than others, such as the the Chalisa and South India Famines between 1782 to 1784, which killed roughly 11 million people altogether, or the...
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Author:Wamariya, ClemantineSummary:"The plot provided by the universe was filled with starvation, war and rape. I would not-could not-live in that tale." Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors...
- Author:LEATHER, StephenSummary:
Jack Solomon is a messenger of death. Working in the fractured remains of Yugoslavia, his task is to identify the victims of ethnic cleansing and to tell families that their loved ones are never coming home.
- Author:Dallaire, RomeoSummary:
A brave, unforgettable first-hand account of the Rwandan genocide by a man almost literally haunted by the dead and by the spectre of his mission's failure. Marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of this horrific event, this edition...
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Author:Applebaum, AnneSummary:From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes-the consequences of which still resonate today In 1929 Stalin launched...
- Author:Gicali, Marie-JoséeSummary:
Le génocide commence le 7 avril 1994. L'inconcevable boucherie gagne rapidement le pays entier. Presque toute la famille de Marie-Josée Gicali est aussitôt tuée, mais cette dernière réussit à échapper au massacre, ne devant...
- Author:Stern, JessicaSummary:
Between October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a series of conversations in a prison cell in The Hague with Radovan Karadzic, a Bosnian Serb former politician who had been indicted for genocide and...
- Author:Thompson, Allan, Dallaire, RoméoSummary:
When human beings are at their worst - as they most certainly were in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide - the world needs the institutions of journalism and the media to be at their best. Sadly, in Rwanda, the media fell short. Media and...
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Author:Boudjikanian, RaffySummary:Powerful accounts by genocide survivors, a journalist seeking to bear witness to their pain. Darfuri refugee camps in Chad, Kigali in Rwanda, and the ruins of ancient villages in Turkey — all visited by genocide, all still reeling in...
- Author:Rever, JudiSummary:
A stunning work of investigative reporting by a Canadian journalist who has risked her own life to bring us a deeply disturbing history of the Rwandan genocide that takes the true measure of Rwandan head of state Paul Kagame. Through...
- Author:Mukasonga, ScholastiqueSummary:
In these five autobiographical stories, the author renders a glorious Rwanda from the obliterating force of recent history, summoning phantom memories of her home that radiate with the fierce ache of a survivor.
- Author:Gretton, DanSummary:
Dan Gretton presents an unprecedented study of the perpetrators of crimes against humanity: the "desk killers" who ordered and directed some of the worst atrocities of the modern era.
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Author:Jones, AdamSummary: -
Author:Springer, JaneSummary:"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and Mail Some...
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Author:Combres, ElisabethSummary:IRA Notable Books for a Global Society selection. Hiding behind an armchair, five-year-old Emma does not witness the murder of her mother, but she hears everything. And when the assassins finally leave, the young Tutsi girl somehow...
