Hotel Rwanda322 reviews Xolani Mali, Don Cheadle MGM (Video & DVD), 2005 Powerfully Amazing! + Powerful and stunning fictionalized (but fact-based) history + dvd This movie is one of the most powerful of it's type. When it was first out, there were two other movies depicting the genocides and problems facing african nations. While each is very good, Hotel Rwanda is the best. It's simple story about a simple man saving hundreds of people, and the personal ...             Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak18 reviews Jean Hatzfeld Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005 Brilliant + Machete Season + The Murderers Speak + 500,000 not 50,000 + Not the book to begun with, but a book for deeper digging             A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide3 reviews Linda Melvern Zed Books, 2000 A People Betrayed + Fine words that counted for nothing + Is anyone interested in Rwanda? `Quite extraordinary: precise, and yet overwhelming; a fine balance in the face of depravity... Linda Melvern has written an extraordinary account of the Rwanda genocide, and the shocking failure of the West to lift a finger... What Melvern demonstrates so powerfully is that where Western ...             The Rwanda Crisis8 reviews Gérard Prunier Columbia University Press, 1997 Eclipsed, but important + The Only Sensible Deconstruction I've Read + An amazing book + A horrifying report on how we humans behave             Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire (Documentary)4 reviews Roméo Dallaire Cinema Poignantly Crying - "Let this never happen again." + Compelling accessory to the book + Poignant, heart-felt and eye-opening + Haunting, Eloquent and Mandatory to See             Frontline: Ghosts of Rwanda23 reviews PBS Paramount, 2005 PBS special: one of the best + A stunning documentary + An eye/heart opener + ghosts of rwanda             Silent Accomplice: The Untold Story of France's Role in the Rwandan Genocide2 reviews Andrew Wallis I. B. Tauris, 2007 Impeccably Researched Andrew Wallis has done a superb job in bringing to light the French arrogance and cynicism that deliberately and directly helped a murderous regime succeed in carrying out a genocide and war. Thank god for researchers like Wallis whose impeccably-researched and extremely-readable book has uncovered ...             Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey13 reviews Fergal Keane Penguin (Non-Classics), 1997 One of the most stunning books about Rwanda! + Deeply Touching and Moving + Excellent Journalism + A colorful and powerful eye witness account of genocide             Genocide in Rwanda: Complicity of the Churches?1 review Paragon House Publishers, 2004 Good Read, But Could Have Been Better Don't get me wrong, this is an important book to read, but I think the editors could have done a better job of well, editing. This is because many of the essays contained in the book start with a very similar introduction of the facts that lead up to what occurred: the Hutus and Tutsis have had a ...             The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History Jean-Pierre Chrétien Zone Books, 2003 Though the genocide of 1994 catapulted Rwanda onto the international stage, English-language historical accounts of the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa--which encompasses Burundi, eastern Congo, Rwanda, western Tanzania, and Uganda--are scarce. Drawing on colonial archives, oral tradition, archeological discoveries, anthropologic and linguistic studies, and his thirty years of scholarship, ...             A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide187 reviews Samantha Power Harper Perennial, 2003 Thorough Study of Genocide History + An important book to read + What About America's own Age of its Genocide? Samantha Power has produced a history of genocide through the 20th century. She presents an impressive accounts of genocide against Armenians in Turkey, Jews in Holocaust, Tutsi in Rwanda, Kurds in Iraq, and Bosnian Muslims in the Balkan war; the stories are extremely well-written, and the images ...             Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwanda Genocide and the International Community8 reviews Linda Melvern Verso, 2004 Conspiracy Versus Conspiracy Theory + Excellent investigative reporting + How the world failed Rwanda. Original interview on Small Wars Journal.com "It is called The General's Book on Rwanda, and, right, the General is Rwandan Major General Augustin Ndindiliyimana, who was the head of the Nationale Gendarmerie during the period of time in which what has come to be referred to as the "Rwandan ...             The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda12 reviews Elizabeth Neuffer Picador, 2002 A GREAT COMPANION + Important questions, and an excellent treatment of same. + Justice Delivered? Neuffer has written a great companion to the works of Gourevitch and Samantha Power. A Key... is somewhat more intense, powerful reading. It is a primary source compilation of the horror stories that were Bosnia and Rwanda. Keeping track of all the players and respective groups is a little ...             An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography31 reviews Paul Rusesabagina, Tom Zoellner Viking Adult, 2006 Phenomenal Biography, modestly written + An Ordinary Man + Satisfied + An Ordinary Man + Inspiring Book, More Inspiring Man             The Lion, the Fox and the Eagle2 reviews Carol Off Vintage Canada, 2001 The Lion, the Fox and the Eagle Carol Off does a terrific job explaining two of the most complicated tragedies of this lifetime. If you want a concise understanding of the Rwandan and Yugoslavian genocides and wars then this is your book. It is told from the point of view of the Canadians. It has excellent references.             The Path of a Genocide: The Rwanda Crisis from Uganda to Zaire Transaction Publishers, 1999             We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda215 reviews Philip Gourevitch Picador, 1999 One of the best books I have read in a long time + "The Idea is the Crime" + The best, most educational and most gripping account of the genocide + Never Again, again             Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda1 review Michael Barnett Cornell University Press, 2002 Superb Account of the UN Role in Rwanda As stated above, Barnett was a staffer on the U.S. Mission to the U.N. in 1994 and thus had a first hand view of the workings/failure of the Secretariat, the Security Council, the United Nations and the international community as a whole. Unlike so many other books about Rwanda, Barnett refuses to ...             The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda5 reviews Alan J. Kuperman Brookings Institution Press, 2001 Brilliant and Insightful! + Rave Reviews + Excellent read for the lay person + Refreshingly sobering             The Shallow Graves of Rwanda2 reviews Shaharyan M. Khan I. B. Tauris, 2001 A first class case study of a UN operation Although not quite perfect in its smallest detail, this is the most authoritative analysis yet available of the aid that the UN and the international community tried to provide to Rwanda after the genocide of 1994, concentrating on the period from the author's arrival in June of that year and ...