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 A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali - Gil Courtemanche
Description: ISBN 1841955256 / Author: Gil Courtemanche / Genre: Fiction / Publisher: Canongate Books Newest Review: ... - is pretty much my take on how the Rwandan genocide came about. The Belgian colonialists created two groups - the Hutus and ... more  ... the Tutsis (equivalent to my brunettes and blonds) and the whole thing went utterly crazy in 1994 leading to the deaths of between 800 000 and one million people.
Outside Africa the rest of the world watched the news reports, tutted to themselves and did far too little - after all, there's no oil in Rwanda, is there? Probably like me - if you remember it at all - you didn't have any idea where Rwanda was or anything about its history. Perhaps even now, you still couldn't place it on a map. Maybe you suppressed...more |
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Format: hardback, Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd, ISBN: 184195433
Pages: 272, Hardcover, Canongate Books - Books/Subjects/Fiction/B ... |
£ 9.89 |
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A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali - Gil Courtemanche: Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach (1785 words)
by koshkha - written on 31.03.08 (Very useful, 119 readings)
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===Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing=== I'd like to ask you to forget everything you know about history and imagine a very different world in which Britain was invaded by a colonising force. The colonial masters found a great diversity in how we looked - tall, short, skinny, rotund, blonde, dark, ugly and gorgeous. They hired an academic scientist - a so-called expert - to study us and discern whether we really were all the same 'tribe'. He looked at our physiognomy and decided that all the tall skinny fine-boned blondes were one race - perhaps descended from the Vikings and he called those the 'blondes'. Then he built a second group of the shorter, rounder, ...
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