Volume 54, Number 5 · March 29, 2007
Big Gamble in Rwanda
By Stephen Kinzer
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
by Roméo Dallaire, with a foreword by Samantha Power
Carroll and Graf, 562 pp., $30.00; $16.95 (paper)
The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide
by Gérard Prunier
Columbia University Press, 389 pp., $29.95
Imagined Olympians: Body Culture and Colonial Representation in Rwanda
by John Bale
University of Minnesota Press,277 pp., $23.50 (paper)
Silent Accomplice: The Untold Story of France's Role in Rwandan Genocide
by Andrew Wallis
I.B. Tauris, 256 pp., $35.00
An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography
by Paul Rusesabagina with Tom Zoellner
Penguin, 224 pp., $14.00 (paper)
One morning last summer, while staying at the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali, Rwanda, I heard a great commotion below my first-floor window. I looked out, and saw a crowd of about one hundred distraught people pressing around a man who was dressed in a Canadian army uniform and wore the blue beret of a United Nations peacekeeper. Desperation was etched on their faces as they shouted at him in various languages.
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