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998259
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b752629
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Fuir ou Mourir au Zaïre.English
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Umutesi, Marie Béatrice,1959-
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Surviving the slaughter : : the ordeal of a Rwandan refugee in Zaire /\ Marie Béatrice Umutesi ; foreword by Catharine Newbury ; translated by Julia Emerson.
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| Publication Statement
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Madison, Wis. :: University of Wisconsin Press,, ©2004.
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| Series Statement
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Women in Africa and the diaspora
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1 online resource (xix, 258 pages) :: maps.
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| ISBN
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0299204936
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: 1282269674
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: 6612269677
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: 9780299204938
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: 9781282269675
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: 9786612269677
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0299204901
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0299204944
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9780299204907
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9780299204945
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| Contents
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I discover my ethnic identity -- Increasing violence -- Descent into Hell -- Survival in the camps at Kivu -- A difficult choice -- Pursued westward -- Hunted across Zaire -- The death camp at Tingi-Tingi -- Hunger on the road -- My life for ten dollars -- The end of the ordeal.
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| Abstract
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Though the world was stunned by the horrific massacres of Tutsi by the Hutu majority in Rwanda beginning in April 1994, there has been little coverage of the reprisals that occurred after the Tutsi gained political power. During this time hundreds of thousands of Hutu were systematically hunted and killed. Surviving the slaughter : the ordeal of a Rwandan refugee in Zaire is the eyewitness account of Marie Béatrice Umutesi. She tells of life in the refugee camps in Zaire and her flight across 2000 kilometers on foot. During this forced march, far from the world's cameras, many Hutu refugees were trampled and murdered. Others died from hunger, exhaustion, and sickness, or simply vanished, ignored by the international community and betrayed by humanitarian organizations. Amidst this brutality, day-to-day suffering, and desperate survival, Umutesi managed to organize the camps to improve the quality of life for women and children. In this first-hand account of inexplicable brutality, day-to-day suffering, and survival, Marie Béatrice Umutesi sheds light on a backlash of violence that targeted the Hutu refugees of Rwanda after the victory of the Rwandan Patriotic Front in 1994. Umutesi's documentation of the flight and terror of these years provides the world a veritable account of a history that is still widely unknown. After translations from its original French into three other languages, this important book is available in English for the first time. It is more than a testimony to the lives and humanity lost; it is a call for those politicians, military personnel, and humanitarian organizations responsible for the atrocious crimes--and the devastating silence--to be held accountable.--Publisher description.
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Umutesi, Marie Béatrice,1959-
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Umutesi, Marie Béatrice,1959-
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Genocide-- Rwanda.
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Refugees-- Congo (Democratic Republic)
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Rwandans-- Congo (Democratic Republic)
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Social Scientists Psychologists.
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Ethnic relations.
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Flüchtling
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Genocide.
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History Archaeology.
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Refugees.
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Regions Countries - Africa.
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Rwandans.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Discrimination Race Relations.
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Völkermord
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Genocide.
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Rwanda, Ethnic relations.
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Rwanda, History, Civil War, 1994, Personal narratives.
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Rwanda, History, Civil War, 1994, Refugees.
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Congo (Democratic Republic)
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Kongo Demokratische Republik
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Ruanda
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Rwanda.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.9/06914/09675109049
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| LC Classification
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DT450.435.U513 2004eb
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| NLM classification
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MI 55968rvk
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