We want to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families
We want to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families. Reports from Rwanda is a book by the writer Philip Gourevitch about the genocide in Rwanda in which around 800,000 Tutsi and Hutu were killed in1994. The book was published in 1998 under the English title We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda . The German translation appeared a year later.
Gourevitch traveled through Rwanda after the conflict to gather information and interview survivors. The book tells stories of survivors and reflects the significance of the genocide.
The title is taken from a letter dated April 15, 1994, sent to Pastor Elizaphan Ntakirutimana , President of the Seventh-day Adventist Church , by several Adventist ministers who had sought refuge with other Tutsi in an Adventist hospital in Mugonero , Kibuye Prefecture in western Rwanda. Gourevitch accuses Ntakirutimana of assisting the killings that took place at the complex the next day. Ntakirutimana was convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda after the book was published .
The book won a number of awards including the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award , the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and the George K. Polk Award for Foreign Reporting.
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- We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families. Stories from Rwanda. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York NY 1998, ISBN 0-374-28697-3 .
- We want to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families. Reports from Rwanda. From the American by Meinhard Büning. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-8270-0351-2 .