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de Philip Gourevitch (Author) "Decimation means the killing of every tenth person in a population, and in the spring and early summer of 1994 a program of massacres decimated..." En savoir plus
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"Hutus kill Tutsis, then Tutsis kill Hutus--if that's really all there is to it, then no wonder we can't be bothered with it," Philip Gourevitch writes, imagining the response of somebody in a country far from the ethnic strife and mass killings of Rwanda. But the situation is not so simple, and in this complex and wrenching book, he explains why the Rwandan genocide should not be written off as just another tribal dispute.

The "stories" in this book's subtitle are both the author's, as he repeatedly visits this tiny country in an attempt to make sense of what has happened, and those of the people he interviews. These include a Tutsi doctor who has seen much of her family killed over decades of Tutsi oppression, a Schindleresque hotel manager who hid hundreds of refugees from certain death, and a Rwandan bishop who has been accused of supporting the slaughter of Tutsi schoolchildren, and can only answer these charges by saying, "What could I do?" Gourevitch, a staff writer for the New Yorker, describes Rwanda's history with remarkable clarity and documents the experience of tragedy with a sober grace. The reader will ask along with the author: Why does this happen? And why don't we bother to stop it? --Maria Dolan --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.



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What courage must it have required to research and write this book? And who will read such a ghastly chronicle? Gourevitch, who reported from Rwanda for the New Yorker, faces these questions up front: "The best reason I have come up with for looking more closely into Rwanda's stories is that ignoring them makes me even more uncomfortable about existence and my place in it." The stories are unrelentingly horrifying and filled with "the idiocy, the waste, the sheer wrongness" of one group of Rwandans (Hutus) methodically exterminating another (Tutsis). With 800,000 people killed in 100 days, Gourevitch found many numbed Rwandans who had lost whole families to the machete. He discovered a few admirable characters, including hotelier Paul Rusesabagina, who, "armed with nothing but a liquor cabinet, a phone line, an internationally famous address, and his spirit of resistance," managed to save refugees in his Hotel des Milles Collines in Kigali. General Paul Kagame, one of Gourevitch's main sources in the new government, offers another bleak and consistent voice of truth. But failure is everywhere. Gourevitch excoriates the French for supporting the Hutus for essentially racist reasons; the international relief agencies, which he characterizes as largely devoid of moral courage; and the surrounding countries that preyed on the millions of refugees?many fleeing the consequences of their part in the killings. As the Rwandans try to rebuild their lives while awaiting the slow-moving justice system, the careful yet passionate advocacy of reporters like Gourevitch serves to remind both Rwandans and others that genocide occurred in this decade while the world looked on.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Heartwrenching Documentary, Juil 8 2004
This book will rip your heart out if you have the compassion for this poor, strife-ridden country (and many others like it). I am still trying to understand the Dark Continent and why all these tragedies happen in such brutal ways (I am an avid reader of the pan-African countries and visited Botswana and Zimbabwe last year). Philip Gourevitch paints a pretty bleak picture, but I believe what he relays is very accurate for everything else I have learned about this genocide through international reports. I would love to see Steven Spielberg (or someone as talented) do for this book what he did for Schindler's List. This story needs to be told. These brutalities are still going on there, and, in other countries of Africa. Only now, in 2004, are the perpetrators of these horrendous acts now being brought to trial (with only a glimpse in your local newspaper, if at all). I definitely recommend this book, but only if you have a strong stomach. If you are interested in other countries, I strongly recommend "In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz", Michela Wrong (Congo) and "Our Votes, Our Guns", Martin Meredith (Zimbabawe). Primitive man arose from Africa. The industrial nations left the African nations in obscurity while beating them down and teasing them with our so called progressive ways (and exploiting their natural resources at their expense). Has this led to the corruption of the new African leaders? Power? Greed? The atrocities that follow? Why can't the African countries overcome the stigma befallen them? We can only better understand these conundrums if we educate ourselves.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Excellent glimpse of human stories from the genocide, Avril 2 2007
Par S. A. Forrest (Hamilton, ON, Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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Having read this book shortly after Romeo Dallaire's Shake Hands with the Devil, I feel the most natural way to comment on this book is by comparison. Its strength is truly in its human stories, in the first-person accounts of genocide survivors and genocidaires. Dallaire's book gives a more detailed summary of the overall chronology of events of the genocide (at least from Dallaire's perspective). That said, Gourevitch's book includes more details about the historical context before and after the genocide.

It is in reading these last accounts that I very much appreciate very much Gourevitch's effort to be fair. I have seen the Rwandan Genocide represented in the Western press as anything from a completely one-sided slaughter of Tutsi innocents by remorseless Hutu ogres to a double genocide: both are exaggerations, but Gourevitch does not shrink from assigning blame where he feels it is due. His portrayal of Paul Kagame's RPF during the time of the genocide is generally positive, but he is critical of Kagame's later intervention with Museveni in the Congo.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Why we must do more to help Africa, Sep 28 2006
The book is brilliantly written and for me is one of the most important non-fiction books published. Though we are far from Africa and little is said about it in the news, this book illustrates how we as humans are bitterly failing one another. Heart-wrenching and somewhat overwhelming, it too me back to my travels to Africa and reinforced my beliefs that something must be done to prevent another Rwanda in places like Darfur that are well on their way. Read this book. It will change the way you look at life.

Recommend: Race Against Time: Stephen Lewis and Shake Hands with the Devil: Romeo Dallaire
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5.0étoiles sur 5 A true story
In this well researched and beautifully written book about the genocide in Rwanda, Philip Gourevitch did a brilliant job not only in telling us about the genocide, but also in... Read more
Publié le Mai 13 2005 par Peter Jones

5.0étoiles sur 5 An eye opener - The US press did not provide this view!
Gourevitch does a nice job of changing from past to present throughout the book to weave a story that is much different from what the US press provided. Read more
Publié le Juil 14 2004 par M. C. Ciulla

5.0étoiles sur 5 Read Now! It is a must as an American, as a human
I just finished this book today 3 days shy of my 22nd birthday. I had to read it for Comparative Politics at the university I attend. I am glad I read it. Read more
Publié le Jui 29 2004 par college_girl2005

5.0étoiles sur 5 Excellent writing and journalism.
This was an excellent book. It gives an adequate undertsanding of the history of the region, an account of the genocide and also a very interesting look at the aftermath and the... Read more
Publié le Avril 23 2004 par Samir

5.0étoiles sur 5 Very moving
Well written and researched book about the genocide in Rwanda, its aftermath, and the history that preceded it. Gourevich is a sharp analyst and is biting in his criticism. Read more
Publié le Avril 11 2004 par J. Jacobs

5.0étoiles sur 5 why does genocide happen?
This book is one of the best books I have ever read. Ever.

It is certainly not an uplifting book. In three months, the Hutu power regime in Rwanda killed 800,000 minority... Read more

Publié le Avril 9 2004 par Auren Hoffman

4.0étoiles sur 5 Stories of a real horror we should all know and remember
I have various views of this book. First, it is a very important account of one of the great tragedies of our time. Read more
Publié le Mars 15 2004 par Craig Matteson

5.0étoiles sur 5 A Passionate Telling of an Unforgettable Horror
Anyone interested in the 20th Century genocides of various ethnic groups including the Armenians, the Jews, the Bosnians, and the Rwandans will find this book very informative,... Read more
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Credibility Challenged, Culpability Consigned
A masterful retelling of the events surrounding the 1994 genocide in the Great Lakes region of Africa. Read more
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Genocide ignored
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