We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda was written in 1998 by the New Yorker journalist Philip Gourevitch. It is a work of non-fiction about the genocide which took place in Rwanda in 1994 and killed 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
Gourevitch travels to Rwanda in search of the why and how of the genocide. The book is an attempt at understanding how a genocide was possible in this day and age and why nobody did anything to prevent it if everybody knew it was going to happen. It is a brilliant account and in no sensationalist. A must read if you are at all interested in politics, in Africa, and indeed the world.
Just hope that your country (individually) never needs the help of the International community.
The story of Paul Rusesabagina the hotel manager portrayed in Hotel Rwanda is one of the stories in Philip Gourovitch's book.
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