Dimensions
129 x 197 x 23mm
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, 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 machete.
Philip Gouevitch'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-commital. It is a breathtaking examination of the "genocidal mindset", from the perspective of the killers and the killed, and will leave readers stunned.
