Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire - Couverture rigide

Umutesi, Marie Beatrice

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ISBN 10 : 0299204901 ISBN 13 : 9780299204907

Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 2004

Synopsis

Surviving the Slaughter Though the world was stunned by the horrific massacres of Tutsi by the Hutu majority in Rwanda beginning in April 1994, there has been little coverage of the reprisals that occurred after the Tutsi gained political power. During this time hundreds of thousands of Hutu were systematically hunted and killed. "Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee" in Zaire is the eyewitness account of Marie Beatrice Umutesi. She tells of life in the refugee camps in Zaire and her flight across 2000 kilometers on foot. During this forced march, far from the world's cameras, many Hutu refugees were trampled and murdered. Others died from hunger, exhaustion, a...

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Wisconsin Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0299204901
• ISBN 13: 9780299204907
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 258