This almost unbearable book looks unflinchingly into the heart of
evil. The author, Southern Africa Correspondent for the BBC,
brought a sanitized version of genocide into Western living rooms
from April to July 1994. Here the raw reality is fully chronicled:
the massacre at Nyarubuye, the overwhelmed orphanages and
hospitals, the hand-wringing of the international governments. As
events bore out, there is little hope among the few brief examples
of individual decency. Winner of the Orwell Prize 1995. (Kirkus UK)
When President Habyarimana's jet was shot down in April 1994, Rwanda erupted into a hundred-day orgy of killing - which left up to a million dead. The world's media showed the shocking pictures, and then largely moved on. Fergal Keane travelled through the country as the genocide was continuing, and his powerful account reveals the terrible truths behind the headlines.
He takes us to the scene of the appalling massacre at Nyarubuye, to the camp in Tanzania where the chief perpetrator lives like a prince, to the orphanages and Red Cross hospital, through territory controlled by Hutu extremists, and behind the siege lines, as Kigali is about to fall. Yet his searing descriptions are matched by trenchant political and historical analysis. This book offers a few brief glimpses of hope - of individual decency and heroism - but is essentially the story of an encounter with evil. It offers an unforgettable portrait of one of the century's greatest man-made catastrophes.
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