From April to July of 1994, over the course of less than 100 days, 800,000 members of the Rwandan population were murdered by their friends, neighbors, in-laws, and co-workers. the government-sponsored murder of Rwandan Tutsis by the Hutu-Power movement was clearest case of genocide since the Holocaust and the international community (The United States leading the charge) stood mute.
What shocked me about this story was that this genocide was not committed by a trained army. These killers were ordinary people who were driven by mob mentality to literally decimate the population of Rwanda.
There's not much more I can say about this book. It's incredible and horrifying and shocking. Gourevitch is a marvelous writer and the stories he tells are humbling. (10/10)
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