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020 _a9781416575771
050 0 0 _aDT450.443.S43
_bA3 2009
082 0 0 _a967.571 SEB
100 1 _aSebarenzi, Joseph
245 1 0 _aGod sleeps in Rwanda
_b: a journey of transformation
_c/ Joseph Sebarenzi with Laura Ann Mullane
260 _aNew York
_b: Atria Paperback
_c, 2011, c2009.
300 _axi, 260 p., [8] p. of plates
_b: ill.
_c; 24 cm.
500 _aIncludes index.
505 0 0 _aThe drum beat and we were saved -- If we are killed, you will survive -- No one knows how war will end -- A tragedy beyond belief -- It was God's plan -- A life on the signature line -- Clinton's and Annan's healing missions -- A creeping autocracy -- Betrayal -- Escape into exile -- Afterword: Moving toward forgiveness and reconciliation.
520 _aA harrowing tale of survival and reconciliation by a Rwandan Tutsi who flees his homeland before the 1994 genocide and later returns to be elected speaker of the Rwandan parliament, only to be forced into exile once again This memoir tells the story of Joseph Sebarenzi, whose parents, seven siblings, and countless other family members were among 800,000 Tutsi brutally murdered over the course of ninety days in 1994 by extremist Rwandan Hutu -- an efficiency that exceeded even that of the Nazi Holocaust. Outbreaks of ethnic violence had been occurring in Rwanda since colonial times when the Belgians ruled the region. As a child, Sebarenzi twice hid with his mother during episodes of killing, narrowly escaping with his life. When he was a teenager, his father sent him away to school in Congo, telling him, "If we are killed, you will survive." Sebarenzi returned to Rwanda after the genocide and was elected speaker of parliament. But he then learned of a plot to assassinate him, leading him to once again flee the country in a daring escape. The poetic title of the book is taken from an old saying, "God spends the day elsewhere, but He sleeps in Rwanda," but this African nation is not alone in having had a shameful history of ethnic violence.
600 1 0 _aSebarenzi, Joseph
650 0 _aGenocide
_x--Rwanda
650 0 _aReconciliation
651 0 _aRwanda
_x--Biography
651 0 _aRwanda
_x--History
_x--Civil war, 1994
651 0 _aRefugees
_v--Biography
700 1 _aMullane, Laura Ann
942 _cMO
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