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Lädt ... We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families (2000. Auflage)von Philip Gourevitch
Werk-InformationenWe wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda von Philip Gourevitch
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. The Rwandan genocide is one of those historic events which a lot of people have heard of, yet barely anyone knows of the developments leading up to it and the effect it had on the population of the region. This puts it on contrast to the Holocaust, however the stories the author tells from his encounters with survivors and perpetrators are no less heartbreaking. The conflict is explored through personal anecdotes with the author providing supplementary historical and political context. A large section at the end of the book deals with the aftermath of convictions at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and a discussion of the West's disinterest in human rights violations during the genocide in particular and in Africa politics in general. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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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 hundred days. A Tutsi pastor, in a letter to his church president, a Hutu, used the chilling phrase that gives Philip Gourevitch his title. With keen dramatic intensity, Gourevitch frames the genesis and horror of Rwanda's "genocidal logic" in the anguish of its aftermath: the mass displacements, the temptations of revenge and the quest for justice, the impossibly crowded prisons and refugee camps. Through intimate portraits of Rwandans in all walks of life, he focuses on the psychological and political challenges of survival and on how the new leaders of postcolonial Africa went to war in the Congo when resurgent genocidal forces threatened to overrun central Africa. Can a country composed largely of perpetrators and victims create a cohesive national society? This moving contribution to the literature of witness tells us much about the struggle everywhere to forge sane, habitable political orders, and about the stubbornness of the human spirit in a world of extremity. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)364.1510967571Social sciences Social problems and services; associations Criminology Crimes and Offenses Offenses against persons War crimes and genocideKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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