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We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Killed With Our Families Essay

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In the book “We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families” talks about refugee camps in Africa throughout the chapters. Throughout this book written by Phillip Gourevitch it goes into a lot of depth about what all those refugee camps were and the severity of them. It showed how a lot of people didn’t make it due to them losing their life through complete violence and murder from the guards. With knowing more about these camps people look totally different at the society they live in today and the way people can act with such negative actions, especially towards each other. Kibeho was home to a mass murder of about eight hundred thousand people. That comes out to be five and a half lives every minute and about three …show more content…

Gourevitch tells us about the time when school children were being held for slaughter. He says “A group of ninety Tutsi schoolchildren who were being held for slaughter not to worry because the police would protect them, two days later the police helped massacre eighty two of the children” (137, Gourevitch). Nobody could trust anybody when these camps were taking place, it almost seemed as everyone was out to kill anyone they could. One day the school principle asked for the police team to be changed, he later then got home and had heard of the massacre of his students. The book brings up the RPF’s involvement in the violence that erupted at sites like Kibeho and how everything went down. The Kibeho Massacre occurred in a camp for internally displaced people in 1995 in the location of southwest Rwanda. It was estimated that at least 4,000 people in this camp were killed by the soldiers from Rwanda. After the soldiers killed those 4,000 people it was also estimated that the Government also did some killing. It thought that about 340 people roughly. According to Gourevitch “Kibeho was only one of the dozens of camps for the internally displaced persons (188,

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