We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
Author: Philip Gourevitch
An account of a people’s response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. It chronicles what has happened in Rwanda since 1994, when the government called on the Hutu majority to murder the Tutsi minority. 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 the bo….Read More
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