A year later, Philip Gourevitch went to Rwanda to investigate the most unambiguous genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews. Close to a million people were slaughtered in a hundred days, and the rest of the world did nothing to stop it. In 1994, the Rwandan government orchestrated a campaign of extermination, in which everyone in the Hutu majority was called upon to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real. Winner of the Guardian First Book award, a first-hand account one of the defining outrages of modern history.Īll at once, as it seemed, something we could have only imagined was upon us - and we could still only imagine it.
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