ISBN:
0299204936
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0299204944
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9780299204938
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9780299204945
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xix, 258 p.)
Series Statement:
Women in Africa and the diaspora
Uniform Title:
Fuir ou Mourir au Zaïre
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.9/06914/09675109049
Keywords:
Umutesi, Marie Béatrice / 1959-
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Umutesi, Marie Béatrice / 1959-
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Umutesi, Marie Béatrice
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Civil War (Rwanda : 1994)
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1994
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Scientists & Psychologists
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
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Flüchtling
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Völkermord
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Ethnic relations
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Genocide
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Refugees
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Rwandans
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Genocide
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Refugees
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Rwandans
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Ruandischer Flüchtling
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Demokratische Republik Kongo
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Biografie
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Biografie
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Erlebnisbericht
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Demokratische Republik Kongo
;
Ruandischer Flüchtling
Note:
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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Though the world was stunned by the horrific massacres of Tutsi by the Hutu majority in Rwanda beginning in April 1994, there has been little coverage of the reprisals that occurred after the Tutsi gained political power. During this time hundreds of thousands of Hutu were systematically hunted and killed. Surviving the slaughter : the ordeal of a Rwandan refugee in Zaire is the eyewitness account of Marie Béatrice Umutesi. She tells of life in the refugee camps in Zaire and her flight across 2000 kilometers on foot. During this forced march, far from the world's cameras, many Hutu refugees were trampled and murdered. Others died from hunger, exhaustion, and sickness, or simply vanished, ignored by the international community and betrayed by humanitarian organizations. Amidst this brutality, day-to-day suffering, and desperate survival, Umutesi managed to organize the camps to improve the quality of life for women and children. In this first-hand account of inexplicable brutality, day-to-day suffering, and survival, Marie Béatrice Umutesi sheds light on a backlash of violence that targeted the Hutu refugees of Rwanda after the victory of the Rwandan Patriotic Front in 1994. Umutesi's documentation of the flight and terror of these years provides the world a veritable account of a history that is still widely unknown. After translations from its original French into three other languages, this important book is available in English for the first time. It is more than a testimony to the lives and humanity lost; it is a call for those politicians, military personnel, and humanitarian organizations responsible for the atrocious crimes--and the devastating silence--to be held accountable.--Publisher description
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I discover my ethnic identity -- Increasing violence -- Descent into Hell -- Survival in the camps at Kivu -- A difficult choice -- Pursued westward -- Hunted across Zaire -- The death camp at Tingi-Tingi -- Hunger on the road -- My life for ten dollars -- The end of the ordeal
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