Life Laid Bare The Survivors in Rwanda Speak

Name: Life Laid Bare The Survivors in Rwanda Speak
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ISBN: 9781590512739

ISBN-10: 1590512731

ISBN-13: 9781590512739

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jean Hatzfeld, Linda Coverdale

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"To make the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda is a painful task that we have no right to shirkit is part of being a moral adult."Susan Sontag In the late 1990s, French author and journalist Jean Hatzfeld made several journeys into the hilly, marshy region of the Bugesera, one of the areas most devastated by the Rwandan genocide of April 1994, where an average of five out of six Tutsis were hacked to death with machete and spear by their Hutu neighbors and militiamen. In the villages of Nyamata and N'tarama, Hatzfeld interviewed fourteen survivors of the genocide, from orphan teenage farmers to the local social worker. For years the survivors had lived in a muteness as enigmatic…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Publication date: 10/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.72" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Linda Coverdale is the awarding-winning translator of many French works and has been honored with the title of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters for her contribution to French literature.



Maps


Chronology of Events in Rwanda and the District of Nyamata


Introduction


Early Morning in Nyamata



The Big and Little Markets



The Bugesera Road



Kibungo Hill



Lyre-Shaped Horns



At the Widows' Corner



Bicycle-Taxis Under an Acacia



A Shop on Main Street



The Penitentiary at Rilima



A Secret Flight



The Niches in the Memorials



A Clarification Along the Way



Claudine's Terre-Tole House



Twilight at La Permanence



A Few Statistics


Notes