| Description |
205 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : colour illustrations, map ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
"In the space of a hundred days in 1994, close to a million Tutsi in Rwanda were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors. At the height of the genocide, as men with bloody machetes ransacked her home, Denise Uwimana gave birth to her third son. With the unlikely help of Hutus who risked their own lives, she and her children survived. Her husband and other family members were not as lucky. If this were only a memoir of those chilling days and the long hard road to personal healing, it would be remarkable enough. But Denise Uwimana didn't stop there. Leaving a career in business, she devoted the rest of her life to restoring her country by empowering other genocide widows to band together, tell their stories, find healing, and rebuild their lives. The stories she has uncovered through her work and recounted here illustrate the complex and unfinished work of truth-telling, recovery, and reconciliation that may be Rwanda's lasting legacy."--From back cover. |
| Contents |
Plane crash -- Roots -- Refugee childhood -- Wakening -- Charles -- Trouble -- Tightening net -- April 16 -- Haven -- Alone -- Survivors -- Peace with Bugarama -- Mukoma -- The sisterhood -- Beata -- A time to heal -- Antoine -- Wellspring -- Cancilde and Emamanuel. |
| Summary |
A hundred days of carnage, twenty-five years of rebirth--Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Civil War (Rwanda : 1994) (OCoLC)fst01352318
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Uwimana, Denise.
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Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Atrocities.
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Genocide survivors -- Rwanda.
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Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Personal narratives.
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Tutsi (African people) -- Crimes against -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century.
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Rwanda -- Ethnic relations.
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Reconciliation -- Social aspects -- Rwanda.
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Reconciliation -- Political aspects -- Rwanda.
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Atrocities. (OCoLC)fst00820727
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Ethnic relations. (OCoLC)fst00916005
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Genocide survivors. (OCoLC)fst01764366
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Reconciliation -- Political aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01091515
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Tutsi (African people) -- Crimes against.
(OCoLC)fst01426861
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Rwanda. (OCoLC)fst01212358
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Personal narratives.
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Biographies.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Personal narratives. (OCoLC)fst01423843
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Uwimana, Denise. From red earth. [Walden, New York] : Plough Publishing House, 2019 9780874860023 (DLC) 2018057335 |
| ISBN |
9780874869842 (paperback) |
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0874869846 (paperback) |
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