civil war, 1994

During a one-hundred-day period in 1994 Hutu extremists murdered over a half million Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda using unspeakable methods. Little or nothing was done by the international community to stop the genocide.

Romeo Dallaire was the force commander of the UN Assistance Mission to Rwanda in 1993-1994. His small peacekeeping force found themselves abandoned by the world's major powers and caught up in civil war and genocide. He and his forces managed to rescue thousands but his calls for support went unanswered and he still witnessed the murder of 800,000 Rwandans in one hundred days. He is the highest ranking military officer ever to suffer openly with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). He is currently a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Contains a full narrative account of the events surrounding the mass killing of one million people in Rwanda in 1994.

Outlines the circumstances that led to the genocide in Rwanda, where nearly one million people of an ethnic minority were exterminated in one hundred days, and discusses international reactions and the aftermath.

Presents a collection of oral histories from Tutsi survivors and confessed Hutu killers of the Rwandan genocide when the Hutus were released from prison and allowed to return to their homes.

The true story of Immacul?e Ilibagiza who endured the murder of her family as a result of genocide in Rwanda in 1994 and how she was able to later forgive those who had killed them.

The author brings together the personal accounts of several survivors of the genocide that occurred in Rwanda during the late 1990s, as they describe the deaths of their family and friends and their lives today.