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In Left to Tell, Immaculée Ilibagiza shares of her experience during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.She survived hidden for 91 days with seven other women in a small bathroom, no larger than 3 feet (0.91 m) by 4 feet (1.2 m) (an area of 12 square feet).
Gourevitch accused Ntakirutimana of aiding the killings that happened in the complex the next day. Ntakirutimana was eventually convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. The book not only explains the genocide's peak in 1994, but the history of Rwanda leading up to the major events. [2]
She was the primary author of the 1999 book Leave None to Tell the Story, which The Economist [12] and The New York Times [2] both describe as the definitive account of the Rwandan genocide. In the book, she argued that the genocide was organized by the Hutu -dominated Rwandan government at the time, rather than being a spontaneous outbreak of ...
In The New York Times, Howard W. French stated that the book is "perhaps the most ambitious attempt yet to tell the dark story of Rwanda and the region’s deeply intertwined tragedies for a general audience". [8] Peter Beaumont in the Guardian states "Do Not Disturb represents one of the most far-reaching historical revisions of Kagame and his ...
The book discusses several periods during which these events took place: the Rwandan civil war including the 1994 Rwandan genocide (1990–1994); the counterinsurgency period in Rwanda (1994–1997); RPF participation in two Congo wars (First and Second); and more recently, deaths of Rwanda dissidents.
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The Girl Who Smiled Beads was a New York Times best seller. [1]The book received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, calling it "a powerful coming-of-age story." [2] [3] It also received positive reviews from The Washington Post, [4] Star Tribune, [5] Booklist, [6] [7] Kirkus Reviews, [8] Library Journal, [9] and The Atlantic. [10]
Longman has also published extensively on efforts to rebuild post-genocide Rwanda, most notably in his 2017 book, Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda. [15] In this book, Longman looks at the many transitional justice programs that the post-genocide government has implemented, including the grassroots gacaca courts, and how the Rwandan ...