WE WISH TO INFORM YOU THAT TOMORROW WE WILL BE KILLED WITH OUR FAMILIES by Philip Gourevithc

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Gourevitch, Philip. We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with our Families.

My presentation today is over Philip Gourevitch book "We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with our Families"

First I will shortly say a little bit what the book is about, then I am going to tell how it's got it's title, after that I will tell about Rwanda in general, and finally I will talk about the Hutus and Tutsis.

In the book "We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families", Mr. Gourevitch explains why the Rwandan genocide should not be written off as just another tribal dispute. The stories in this book are both the author's and the people he interview's, as he repeatedly visits Rwanda in an attempt to make sense of what happened. Some of the people he interviewed include: a Tutsi doctor who has seen much of her family killed over decades of Tutsi oppression, a hotel manager who hid hundreds of refugees from certain death, and a Rwandan bishop who has been accused of supporting the slaughter of Tutsi schoolchildren.

The title, "We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families," comes from a letter that was

Next I will tell a little bit about Rwanda:

85 % out of a population of seven and a half million or so were Hutus.

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Approximate Word count = 1004
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

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