We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

Title: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda Author: Gourevitch, Philip ISBN: 9780312243357 Publisher: Picador Published: 1999 Binding: Paperback Language: English Publisher Description: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable debut book from Philip Gourevitch chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Though the killing was low-tech--largely by machete--it was carried out at shocking speed: 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 gi