Summary of Philip Gourevitch's We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

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#1 I went to Nyarubuye in Rwanda to see the church where many Tutsis were murdered in April of 1994. The bodies had not been moved, and they looked like pictures of the dead. I did not need to see them to know what happened in Rwanda.

#2 The butchery of the cow was hard work, but the butchery of people is different. It must be done for a new order, and the people must want it so badly that they consider it a necessity.

#3 I was able to see what I was seeing, and I took photographs to remember it. I was unable to find any meaning in the beauty of the dead bodies, and I was simply disturbed by the sight.

#4 Rwanda is a beautiful country, but it was the site of a genocide in 1994. The country was empty except for some rural areas in the south, where the desertion of Hutus had left nothing but bush to reclaim the fields around crumbling adobe houses.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822530409

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#1

I went to Nyarubuye in Rwanda to see the church where many Tutsis were murdered in April of 1994. The bodies had not been moved, and they looked like pictures of the dead. I did not need to see them to know what happened in Rwanda.

#2

The butchery of the cow was hard work, but the butchery of people is different. It must be done for a new order, and the people must want it so badly that they consider it a necessity.

#3

I was able to see what I was seeing, and I took photographs to remember it. I was unable to find any meaning in the beauty of the dead bodies, and I was simply disturbed by the sight.

#4

Rwanda is a beautiful country, but it was the site of a genocide in 1994. The country was empty except for some rural areas in the south, where the desertion of Hutus had left nothing but bush to reclaim the fields around crumbling adobe houses.

#5

The genocide was successful in eliminating the Tutsi population, but not in proving that it was done to eliminate a people. There were only people’s stories.

#6

The Rwandan culture is one of fear, and the victims of the genocide had been psychologically prepared to expect death just for being Tutsi. They were being killed for so long that they were already dead.

#7

Samuel Ndagijimana, a Seventh-Day Adventist medical orderly, sought refuge in the Seventh-Day Adventist mission hospital in Mugonero, Rwanda. He said that members of Hutu Power parties organized the population during the night, and that a change of climate took place at work.

#8

Samuel saw Tutsis arriving at the church, and decided to stay there until the troubles were over. The hospital soon became packed with thousands of refugees, and the water lines were cut. Nobody could leave, but the pastors managed to arrange for the evacuation of some Hutus.

#9

Around nine o’clock in the morning on Saturday, April 16, 1994, armed men attacked the hospital. The Tutsi pastors at the hospital had warned the refugees that they would be killed.

#10

Samuel also survived the genocide, and like Manase, he too fled to Bisesero. There, he met up with other survivors who had taken shelter in an Adventist church. For nearly twenty-four hours, they had peace. Then Dr. Gerard came with a convoy of militia.

#11

During the fighting, Manase got used to