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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
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Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
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"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
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Machete Season
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Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak
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Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey
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Running the Rift
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Naomi Benaron (Goodreads Author)
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An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography
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Led by Faith: Rising from the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide
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I'm not leaving.
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Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
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Bloody Rwanda: The Genocide
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4.31 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Dzisiaj narysujemy śmierć
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4.63 avg rating — 2,217 ratings
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The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
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4.02 avg rating — 2,993 ratings
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A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
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4.22 avg rating — 1,143 ratings
score: 387,
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Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda
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4.44 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond
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3.91 avg rating — 1,337 ratings
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Murambi, The Book of Bones
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4.21 avg rating — 967 ratings
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The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
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Jacqueline Novogratz (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 7,109 ratings
score: 296,
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The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide
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4.18 avg rating — 249 ratings
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Over a Thousand Hills, I Walk with You
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3.93 avg rating — 600 ratings
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When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda
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4.08 avg rating — 600 ratings
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God Sleeps in Rwanda: A Journey of Transformation
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4.05 avg rating — 570 ratings
score: 280,
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Cockroaches
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4.42 avg rating — 1,770 ratings
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A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide
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4.13 avg rating — 201 ratings
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Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda
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4.03 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda
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3.86 avg rating — 168 ratings
score: 276,
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Broken Memory
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3.56 avg rating — 565 ratings
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Silent Accomplice: The Untold Story of France's Role in the Rwandan Genocide
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Andrew Wallis (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 43 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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When The Hills Ask For Your Blood: A Personal Story of Genocide and Rwanda
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David Belton (Contributor)
4.03 avg rating — 156 ratings
score: 200,
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The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur
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3.83 avg rating — 837 ratings
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My Father, Maker of the Trees: How I Survived the Rwandan Genocide
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3.93 avg rating — 350 ratings
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Hotel Rwanda: Bringing The True Story Of An African Hero To Film
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4.28 avg rating — 131 ratings
score: 192,
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The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones
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4.03 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Guns over Kigali: The Rwandese Civil War - 1994 (A Personal Account) (Spear Books Imprint)
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Justice on the Grass: Three Rwandan Journalists, Their Trial for War Crimes and a Nation's Quest for Redemption
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3.93 avg rating — 67 ratings
score: 189,
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Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwandan Genocide
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3.94 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Our Lady of Kibeho: Mary Speaks to the World from the Heart of Africa
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A Thousand Hills to Heaven: Love, Hope, and a Restaurant in Rwanda
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4.13 avg rating — 839 ratings
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The Media and the Rwanda Genocide
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Allan Thompson (Editor)
3.87 avg rating — 46 ratings
score: 183,
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The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide
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4.14 avg rating — 822 ratings
score: 178,
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Our Lady of the Nile
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3.76 avg rating — 3,510 ratings
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The Shallow Graves of Rwanda
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4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Barefoot Woman
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Génocidé
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Stuck
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Stacey D. Atkinson (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Tested To The Limit: A Genocide Survivor's Story Of Pain, Resilience And Hope
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4.11 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
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Clemantine Wamariya (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 25,062 ratings
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TERRORIZED IN RWANDA: HEALED BY GRACE
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Hearts Among Ourselves
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In the Aftermath of Genocide: The U.S. Role in Rwanda
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing
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4.06 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Hunting the Devil
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Suanne Schafer (Goodreads Author)
4.80 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Life and Death in Nyamata
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De waarheid over Rwanda. Het regime van Paul Kagame.
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4.26 avg rating — 242 ratings
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Life and Death in Nyamata: Memoir of a Young Boy in Rwanda’s darkest Church (Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda)
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4.58 avg rating — 31 ratings
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A Voice in the Darkness: Memoir of a Rwandan Genocide Survivor
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4.71 avg rating — 190 ratings
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The Weaver's Scar: For Our Rwanda
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Brian Crawford (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
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As We Forgive: Stories of Reconciliation from Rwanda
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Catherine Claire Larson (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 367 ratings
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Paul Kagame and Rwanda: Power, Genocide and the Rwandan Patriotic Front
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3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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A Boy Called Hyppo (Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, #1)
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4.71 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda
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Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence
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Scott Straus (Editor)
4.12 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Political Governance in Post-Genocide Rwanda
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3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel
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After the Locusts: How Costly Forgiveness Is Restoring Rwanda's Stolen Years
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Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda (African Studies, Series Number 112)
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De genocide van de Tutsi in Rwanda
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Unspeakable: Facing Up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terror
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Deogratias, A Tale of Rwanda
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Jean-Philippe Stassen (Author & Illustrator)
3.46 avg rating — 1,433 ratings
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Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts
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Samuel Totten (Editor)
4.17 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Crimes Against Humanity in International Criminal Law
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Rwanda 1994. De samenzwering van de machtigen
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The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (2 Vols)
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Afrikanische Totenklage. Der Ausverkauf des Schwarzen Kontinents.
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Rwanda: souvenirs, témoignages, réflexions
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Sometimes in April
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Rwanda: La descente aux enfers : témoignage d'un peacekeeper, décembre 1993, Avril 1994
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Le patron de Dallaire parle: Révélations sur les dérive d'un général de l'ONU au Rwanda
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Jacques-Roger Booh Booh (Contributor)
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The Path of a Genocide: The Rwanda Crisis from Uganda to Zaire
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Rwanda Means the Universe: A Native's Memoir of Blood and Bloodlines
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De perfect onmenselijke Over-leven na de Rwandese genocide
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De hel van Rwanda '94
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The Hope That Remains: Canadian Survivors of the Rwandan Genocide
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Road Trip Rwanda: A Journey Into the New Heart of Africa
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Hotel Rwanda or the tutsi genocide as seen by Hollywood
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Small Silent Things
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The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda
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Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD
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