We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families

"We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families–Stories from Rwanda"In Rwanda in 1994, the government called upon everyone in the Hutu majority to slaughter every citizen in the Tutsi minority. Overnight, neighbours became killers and victims, friends and colleagues became sworn enemies, and, in the most horrific period of genocide seen since World War II, over 800,000 people were killed over the following one hundred days. The executions were carried out with extreme brutality, often by hand-held machetes.Philip Gourevitch's account of the Rwandan genocide and its aftermath is an examination of a society wrenched in two, and of the Western response to the crisis, which was astonishingly non-committal. It is a breathtaking examination of the "genocidal mindset", from the perspective of the killers and the killed, and will leave readers stunned.