Unnerving, I was reading it while I sumptuously dined at the only five star hotel. This book was my first read during my two week stay in Rwanda/Kigali.
WE WISH TO INFORM YOU THAT TOMORROW UPGRADE
I was sent on a humanitarian medical mission to help the government upgrade what was left of a ravaged, dilapidated, central hospital's medical system. You're denying yourself something important if you don't read it.Īs Joseph Stalin stated: "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." I picked up Gourvitch's book on my way to Rwanda. Why were we so oblivious in the West? Are all men created equal? To say it's a "must read" book really doesn't do it justice. As Gourevitch observes, if what happened in Central Africa happened in Europe, it would have been considered a World War. But if you have to read one book about Rwanda, it should be Peter Gourevitch's "We wish to inform you." It is not only difficult to put down because of its narrative force, but starting from the personal stories of genocide witnesses he is able to zoom out and see the larger picture in which the rest of the world is complicit. "peacekeeping" force, a force that could do little more than bear witness to the genocide that was unfolding around them. Dallaire was the commander of the woefully understaffed U.N. I had read Romeo Dallaire's "Shake Hands with the Devil", which is a harrowing first-person account of the events in Rwanda. And yet this book is so moving and powerful, I think it would take cynicism to the point of inhumanity to deny its impact. It's so rare to see a review site where not one person trashes a book. Listen to what the readers are saying, the unanimity of feeling. If you're thinking about reading this book, I urge you to look at the reviews. Here is an exceptional piece of both political reporting and literature that brings light to a dark corner of modern history. bureaucracy and most of the rest of the world, was washing its hands of the blood in Rwanda. At the same time Americans were building a museum to memorialize the Jewish Holocaust in World War II, our government, along with the U.N. His response was a sarcastic echo of Hitler's justification for the annexation of Czech Sudetenland: "South America is a dagger aimed at the heart of Antarctica." And so it is with Rwanda, relegated to the interior of continent that is a geopolitical second-class citizen. Henry Kissinger was once asked why he invested so little time on Latin American diplomacy.
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