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Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey

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When President Habyarimana's jet was shot down in April 1994, Rwanda erupted into a hundred-day orgy of killing - which left up to a million dead. Fergal Keane travelled through the country as the genocide was continuing, and his powerful analysis reveals the terrible truth behind the headlines. 'A tender, angry account...As well as being a scathing indictment - Keane says the genocide inflicted on the Tutsis was planned well in advance by Hutu leaders - this is a graphic view of news-gathering in extremis. It deserves to become a classic' - "Independent".

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Published
25/04/1996

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd

ISBN
9780140247602

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This almost unbearable book looks unflinchingly into the heart of evil. The author, Southern Africa Correspondent for the BBC, brought a sanitized version of genocide into Western living rooms from April to July 1994. Here the raw reality is fully chronicled: the massacre at Nyarubuye, the overwhelmed orphanages and hospitals, the hand-wringing of the international governments. As events bore out, there is little hope among the few brief examples of individual decency. Winner of the Orwell Prize 1995. (Kirkus UK)