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Season of blood: a Rwandan journey

By Keane , Fergal

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN
9780141927732, 0141927739
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1941806 bytes)
Pages
(xiii, 198 pages) : 1 map\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
1994;Genocide -- Rwanda;Rwanda;Völkermord;RuandaGenocide & Ethnic Cleansing;Völkermord;Genocide--R

Description

Fergal Keane, an Irish journalist, formerly BBC correspondent in South Africa, was sent in 1994 to cover the war in Rwanda that had left one million Tutsis dead, most of them gruesomely hacked to death by their Hutu neighbors. The power of this account lies in Keane's profound emotional shock at barely imaginable cruelty, and in the personal testimony of the survivors he interviewed. Keane also searches for meaning. Like many familiar with Africa, he rejects the too easy explanation of "tribal hatred," with its assumption that the problem is intractable and internal. He emphasizes instead the economic and class disparities driving a political bloodlust, reminiscent perhaps of revolutionary France. Even though understanding such atrocity seems out of reach, Keane bears eloquent witness to evil.;Contains primary source material.

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