A Season of Blood - A Rwandan Journey

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When President Habyarimana's jet was shot down in April 1994, Rwanda erupted into a hundred-day orgy of killing - which left up to a million dead. The author travelled through the country as the genocide was continuing. This analysis aims to reveal the terrible truth behind the headlines.
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 1995

When the horrors of Rwanda were shown on televisions around the world, the media soon moved on to new stories; Fergal Keane travelled through the country as the genocide was continuing, and his powerful account reveals the terrible truths behind the headlines.

He takes us to the scene of the appalling massacre at Nyarubuye, to the camp in Tanzania where the chief perpetrator lives like a prince, to the orphanages and Red Cross hospital, through territory controlled by Hutu extremists, and behind the siege lines, as Kigali is about to fall. Yet his searing descriptions are matched by trenchant political and historical analysis.

This book offers a few brief glimpses of hope - of individual decency and heroism - but is essentially the story of an encounter with unspeakable evil. It offers a portrait of one of the century's greatest man-made catastrophes.
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Weight 0.159000
Author Fergal Keane
Availability IP
Department Travel Writing
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780140247602
Pages 224
Published 25/04/1996
Publisher Penguin
Section Travel Writing: General
Size Unfolded 20x13cm
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