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Gourevitch retells survivors' stories, and reflects on the meaning of the genocide. The title comes from an April 15, 1994, letter written to Pastor Elizaphan Ntakirutimana , president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church 's operations in western Rwanda , by seven Adventist pastors who had taken refuge with other Tutsis in an Adventist hospital ...
Philip Gourevitch (born 1961), an American author and journalist, is a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and a former editor of The Paris Review. His most recent book is The Ballad of Abu Ghraib (2008), an account of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison under the American occupation.
A letter addressed to Ntakirutimana by Tutsi Seventh-day Adventist pastors, which he showed to author Philip Gourevitch, provided the title for Gourevitch's 1998 book We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families. The book accuses Ntakirutimana of complicity in the deaths of the refugees.
The multivolume report implicates proponents of Hutu Power in the attack and Philip Gourevitch states, "two months ago, on the day after Rwanda's admission to the Commonwealth, France and Rwanda reestablished normal diplomatic relations. Before that happened, of course, the Rwandans had shared the about-to-be-released Mutsinzi report with the ...
The joint genocide trial which he led between 2001 and 2002 [10] [11] [12] of Dr. Gerard Ntakirutimana and his father, Pastor Elizaphan Ntakirutimana [13] [14] – the leader of the Seventh Day Adventist Church who was transferred to the UN Court from the United States – was the subject of a book written by the American author, Philip ...
In 1990, a group of 4,000 Rwandan exiles, the Rwandan Patrotic Front, advanced into Rwanda from Uganda, commencing the Rwandan Civil War. [7] [8] A peace agreement, the Arusha Accords, was signed in 1993, bringing most of the fighting to an end. The RPF were given positions in a Broad-Based Transitional Government (BBTG) and in the national ...
Juvénal Habyarimana (Kinyarwanda: [hɑβɟɑːɾímɑ̂ːnɑ]; French: [ʒyvenal abjaʁimana]; 8 March 1937 – 6 April 1994) [1] was a Rwandan politician and military officer who was the second president of Rwanda, from 1973 until his assassination in 1994.
Her life story was profiled at length in Philip Gourevitch's book We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families. She has 3 children; Clement Uwajeneza (born 1980), Ariane Inkesha (born 1982) and Patrick Cyusa Kinyange (born 1987)