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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.22 — 36,647 ratings — published 1998
Our Lady of the Nile (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,551 ratings — published 2012
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.43 — 47,362 ratings — published 2006
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,775 ratings — published 2003
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,287 ratings — published 2018
Machete Season (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,986 ratings — published 2003
Petit pays (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.26 — 28,755 ratings — published 2016
Baking Cakes in Kigali (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.69 — 6,904 ratings — published 2009
Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,149 ratings — published 1994
Running the Rift (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,219 ratings — published 2010
Cockroaches (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,822 ratings — published 2006
An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,783 ratings — published 2006
The Barefoot Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,855 ratings — published 2008
The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.15 — 826 ratings — published 2007
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,564 ratings — published 2000
A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,148 ratings — published 2008
Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,425 ratings — published 1999
All Your Children, Scattered (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.14 — 865 ratings — published 2019
Say You're One of Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.55 — 16,371 ratings — published 2008
Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.09 — 794 ratings — published 2006
When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.08 — 608 ratings — published 2001
The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.17 — 252 ratings — published 1995
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,333 ratings — published 2021
Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.19 — 859 ratings — published 1996
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,576 ratings — published 2010
Murambi. The Book of Bones (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.20 — 977 ratings — published 2004
The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,003 ratings — published 2001
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,256 ratings — published 2000
God Sleeps in Rwanda: A Journey of Transformation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.05 — 574 ratings — published 2009
Deogratias, A Tale of Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,433 ratings — published 2000
Rwanda, Inc.: How a Devastated Nation Became an Economic Model for the Developing World (ebook)
by (shelved 17 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.29 — 332 ratings — published 2012
Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.45 — 94 ratings — published 1999
Jacaranda (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.45 — 8,486 ratings — published 2024
Broken Memory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.56 — 567 ratings — published 2007
Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwandan Genocide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.94 — 216 ratings — published 2004
As We Forgive: Stories of Reconciliation from Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.35 — 368 ratings — published 2009
A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.14 — 202 ratings — published 2000
In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.27 — 245 ratings — published 2018
In The Shadow of 10,000 Hills (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,481 ratings — published 2018
The Shadow of the Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.39 — 17,116 ratings — published 1998
Gorillas in the Mist (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.15 — 21,161 ratings — published 1983
Inside the Hotel Rwanda: The Surprising True Story ... and Why It Matters Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.94 — 286 ratings — published 2014
The Eternal Audience of One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.80 — 928 ratings — published 2019
Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.93 — 606 ratings — published 2003
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,995 ratings — published 2002
Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.85 — 169 ratings — published 2002
Sister Deborah (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as rwanda)
avg rating 3.47 — 316 ratings — published 2022
A Thousand Hills to Heaven: Love, Hope, and a Restaurant in Rwanda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as rwanda)
avg rating 4.13 — 843 ratings — published 2013
“Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building. A vigorous totalitarian order requires that the people be invested in
the leaders' scheme, and while genocide may be the most perverse and ambitious means to this end, it is also the most comprehensive.
In 1994, Rwanda was regarded in much of the rest of the world as the exemplary instance of the chaos and anarchy associated with collapsed states. In fact, the genocide was the product of order, authoritarianism, decades of modern political theorizing and indoctrination, and one of the most meticulously administered states
in history. And strange as it may sound, the ideology- or what Rwandans call "the logic"-
-of genocide was promoted as a way
not to create suffering but to alleviate it. The specter of an absolute menace that requires absolute eradication binds leader and people
in a hermetic utopian embrace, and the individual-always an annoyance to totality -ceases to exist.”
― We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
the leaders' scheme, and while genocide may be the most perverse and ambitious means to this end, it is also the most comprehensive.
In 1994, Rwanda was regarded in much of the rest of the world as the exemplary instance of the chaos and anarchy associated with collapsed states. In fact, the genocide was the product of order, authoritarianism, decades of modern political theorizing and indoctrination, and one of the most meticulously administered states
in history. And strange as it may sound, the ideology- or what Rwandans call "the logic"-
-of genocide was promoted as a way
not to create suffering but to alleviate it. The specter of an absolute menace that requires absolute eradication binds leader and people
in a hermetic utopian embrace, and the individual-always an annoyance to totality -ceases to exist.”
― We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
“Il y a quand même des objets du patrimoine qui parlent de l’histoire, qui parlent du passé. Et le passé permet de voir l’évolution du pays. Il donne aussi une perspective de l’avenir. Quand on a un monument aux morts, on doit prendre conscience que ce pays a connu des guerres. On a en ce monument des problèmes avec le Rwanda. Mais vous savez qu’avec ce monument, on allait se rappeler les victoires du Congo sur le Rwanda. Le Congo avait gagné la guerre, occupé le Rwanda, le Burundi et même Tabora qui était la capitale des Allemands”
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