We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow

With an introduction by Rory Stewart Winner of the Guardian First Book award a first-hand account one of the defining outrages of modern history. All at once as it seemed something we could have only imagined was upon us - and we could still only imagine it. This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is in fact real. In 1994 the Rwandan government orchestrated a campaign of extermination in which everyone in the Hutu majority was called upon to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Close to a million people were slaughtered in a hundred days and the rest of the world did nothing to stop it. A year later Philip Gourevitch went to Rwanda to investigate the most unambiguous genocide since Hitlers war against the Jews. Hailed by the Guardian as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of all time We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families is a first-hand account one of the defining outrages of modern history an unforgettable anatomy of Rwandas decimation. As riveting as it is moving it is a profound reckoning with humanitys betrayal and its perseverance.