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Book Review of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, The Genocide in Rwanda

In 1994 in Rwanda, in eastern Africa, there was an extremely effective genocide
campaign in which the Hutu-Power majority practically exterminated the minority Tutsi
population. What is even more disturbing is how the rest of the world decided to ignore this fact
and take little to no action to stop it, even though doing so directly violated the UN Genocide
Convention. The events of 1994, are the subject of Phillip Gourevitch’s book, We Wish to
Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families. Gourevitch explains in
detail the roots of the Hutu-Tutsi conflict, the events that led up to the genocide, the participation
of foreign countries who aided the murderers and those that tried to oppose them, and of course
the gruesome event and its aftermath. He gives an objective account of history throughout most
of the book, but at certain points allows his personal opinions to shine through. He argues that
the Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF), that assumed ...

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