A compelling account of, and a people's response to, the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 and after. A staff journalist on the "New Yorker", Gourevitch took his title from a phrase used in a letter from a Tutsi pastor to his Hutu church president, and focusses on psychological and political challenges facing the survivors. "A stark rebuttal of those who have tried to separate what happened in Nazi Germany and what happened in Central Africa half a century later" "Guardian". **Shortlisted for the 1999 Guardian First Book Prize**