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A powerful report on the aftereffects of the genocide in Rwanda-and on the near impossibility of reconciliation between survivors and killers
In two acclaimed previous works, the noted French journalist Jean Hatzfeld offered a profound, harrowing witness to the unimaginable pain and horror in the mass killings of one group of people by another. Combining his own analysis of the events with interviews from both the Hutu killers who carried out acts...
2) Cockroaches
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"Imagine being born into a world where everything about you--the shape of your nose, the look of your hair, the place of your birth--designates you as an undesirable, an inferior, a menace, no better than a cockroach, something to be driven away and ultimately exterminated. Imagine being thousands of miles away while your family and friends are brutally and methodically slaughtered. Imagine being entrusted by your parents with the mission of leaving...
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"A moving, unforgettable tribute to a Tutsi woman who did everything to protect her children from the Rwandan genocide, by the daughter who refuses to let her family's story be forgotten. The story of the author's mother, a fierce, loving woman who for years protected her family from the violence encroaching upon them in pre-genocide Rwanda. Recording her memories of their life together in spare, wrenching prose, Mukasonga preserves her mother's voice...
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Mushikiwabo is a Rwandan working as a translator in Washington when she learns that most of her family back home has been killed in a conspiracy meticulously planned by the state. First comes shock, then aftershock, three months of it, during which her worst fears are confirmed: The same state apparatus has duped millions of Rwandans into butchering nearly a million of their neighbors.
Years earlier, her brother Lando wrote her a letter she never...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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In April 1994 the airplane of the Hutu President of Rwanda crashes and the Hutu militias slaughter the Tutsi population. In the Ecole Technique Officielle, Christopher, a Catholic priest and Joe Connor, an idealistic English teacher give sanctuary to twenty-five hundred Rwandans survivors in the school, which is under the protection of the UN Belgian force and under siege from the Hutu militia. When the Tutsi refugees are abandoned by the UN, they...
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Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Hiding behind a chair, five-year-old Emma cant see her mother being murdered, but she hears everything. When the assassins finally leave, the terrified girl stumbles away from the scene, motivated only by the memory of her mothers last words: "You must not die, Emma!" Eventually, Emma is taken in by an old Hutu woman who risks her own life to hide the child. A quiet bond grows between the two, but long after the war ends, Emma is still...
7) Munyurangabo
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Film Movement ; 7, film 5
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
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Kinyarwanda
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An orphan of the Rwandan genocide travels from Kigali to the countryside on a quest for justice.
9) Kinyarwanda
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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During the Rwandan genocide in 1994, when neighbors killed neighbors and friends betrayed friends, some crossed lines of hatred to protect each other. As the country became a slaughterhouse, mosques became places of refuge where Muslims and Christians, Hutus and Tutsis came together to protect each other. Interweaves six different tales that together form one grand narrative that provides the most complex and real depiction yet presented of human...
10) Ghosts of Rwanda
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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Chronicles the Rwandan genocide of 1993, one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century. Includes interviews with key government officials, diplomats, and eyewitnesses accounts.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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During the spring of 1994, in a tiny country called Rwanda, some 800,000 people were hacked to death, one by one, by their neighbors in a gruesome civil war. Several years later, journalist Jean Hatzfeld traveled to Rwanda to interview ten participants in the killings, eliciting extraordinary testimony from these men about the genocide they perpetrated.
13) Munyurangabo
Series
Film Movement ; 75
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Kinyarwanda
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"After stealing a machete from a market in Kigali, Munyurangabo and his friend, Sangwa, leave the city on a journey tied to their pasts. Munyurangabo wants justice for his parents who were killed in the genocide, and Sangwa wants to visit the home he deserted years ago. From two separate ethnic groups, their friendship is tested when Sangwa's wary parents disapprove of Munyurangabo, warning that 'Hutus and Tutsis are supposed to be enemies.'"--
16) Coexist
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Upstander Productions
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"Coexist gives voice to personal stories of victims, perpetrators, bystanders, journalists, scholars, and social commentators nearly a generation after the Rwanda genocide. It was made during the country's unprecedented social experiment in reconciliation, as 60,000 perpetrators were released from prison back into the communities where they pillaged and raped, and murdered nearly 800,000 people in 1994. Coexist and its four-lesson Teacher's Guide...
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