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

Informationen zum Autor Marie Béatrice Umutesi was born in Byumba, Rwanda. Umutesi worked with women's associations in Byumba until she fled to Zaire in 1994. She is currently working on rural development projects in Cameroon. Klappentext In this firsthand account of inexplicable brutality! day-to-day suffering! and survival! Marie Beatrice Umutesi sheds light on "the other genocide" that targeted the Hutu refugees of Rwanda after the victory of the Rwandan Patriotic Front in 1994. Umutesi's documentation of these years provides the world a history that is still widely unknown. Available in English for the first time! this poignant autobiography is more than a testimony to the lives and humanity lost; it is a call for those responsible for the atrocious crimes--and the devastating silence--to be held accountable. Zusammenfassung In this firsthand account of inexplicable brutality! day-to-day suffering! and survival! Marie Beatrice Umutesi sheds light on ""the other genocide"" that targeted the Hutu refugees of Rwanda after the victory of the Rwandan Patriotic Front in 1994.

Product details

• Authors: Marie B. Umutesi, Marie Beatrice Umutesi, Marie Beatrice/ Emerson Umutesi
• Assisted by: Julia Emerson (Translation), Tom Lampert (Translation), Catharine Newbury (Translation)
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.01.2010
• EAN: 9780299204945
• ISBN: 978-0-299-20494-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Women in Africa and the Diaspora; Women in Africa and the Diaspo; Women in Africa and the Diaspora; Women in Africa and the Diaspo
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous