After the Genocide
Philip Gourevtich on the aftermath of the Hutu power’s months-long genocide against the Tutsi minority, in Rwanda, in 1994. When a people murders up to a million fellow-countrymen, what does it mean to survive?
On the Rwandan genocide: "Of an original population of seven million seven hundred thousand, at least eight hundred thousand were killed in just a hundred days... The dead of Rwanda accumulated at nearly three times the rate of Jewish dead during the Holocaust."