Surviving the slaughter : the ordeal of a Rwandan refugee in Zaire / Marie Béatrice Umutesi ; foreword by Catharine Newbury ; translated by Julia Emerson.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: DT450.435 .U513 2004

Overview

Uniform Title: Fuir ou Mourir au Zaïre. English
Series: Women in Africa and the diaspora
Women in Africa and the diaspora.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Umutesi, Marie Béatrice, 1959-
Published: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2004]
©2004
Locale: Rwanda
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Contents: I discover my ethnic identity
Increasing violence
Descent into Hell
Survival in the camps at Kivu
A difficult choice
Pursued westward
Hunted by the rebels and the RPF
The death camp at Tingi-Tingi
Hunger on the road
My life for ten dollars
The end of the ordeal.
Notes: "Originally published in France as Fuir ou mourir au Zaïre"--T.p. verso.

I discover my ethnic identity -- Increasing violence -- Descent into Hell -- Survival in the camps at Kivu -- A difficult choice -- Pursued westward -- Hunted by the rebels and the RPF -- The death camp at Tingi-Tingi -- Hunger on the road -- My life for ten dollars -- The end of the ordeal.

Subjects: Rwanda--History--Civil War, 1994--Refugees. Rwanda--History--Civil War, 1994--Personal narratives. Genocide--Rwanda. Rwanda--Ethnic relations. Refugees--Congo (Democratic Republic) Rwandans--Congo (Democratic Republic) Autobiographies. Personal narratives. Umutesi, Marie Béatrice,--1959-

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