This program is read by the author. An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable audiobook chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Though the killing was low-tech--largely by machete--it was carried out at shocking speed: some 800,000...

A Rwandan Tutsi relates a harrowing tale of survival and reconciliation about returning to his homeland after the 1994 genocide, being elected speaker of the Rwanda Parliament, and being forced into exile once again soon after.