Surviving The Slaughter : The Ordeal Of A Rwandan Refugee In Zaire, Paperback...

Surviving The Slaughter : The Ordeal Of A Rwandan Refugee In Zaire, Paperback by Umutesi, Marie Beatrice; Emerson, Julia (TRN); Newbury, Catharine (FRW), ISBN 0299204944, ISBN-13 9780299204945, Brand New, Free shipping in the USThe world's cameras were there in 1994 when the majority Hutu slaughtered the minority Tutsi by the thousands in Rwanda. However, when the Hutu ran for their lives in turn when the Tutsi minority retaliated by taking political control of Rwanda, the world did not seem to care. Umutesi, a sociologist, was forced to flee on foot to Zaire along with hundreds of thousands of Hutu. She witnessed the intimidation, cruelty, and slaughter of the Hutu by their enemies and unaligned opportunists, moving from death camp to death camp. Eventually, passing as Congolese rather than Rwandan, Umutesi managed to flee to Belgium. Once there she was able to speak her own language, but still wondered if she was truly at the end of the nightmare. Umutesi's account gives the brutal reality of her daily situation amongst those whose lives, like her own, depended on their Hutu or Tutsi features. This volume includes maps and chronologies of Umutesi's life and the events in Rwanda. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()