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

Publication | Library Call Number: DT450.435 .U513 2004

Physical Description: xix, 258 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
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.
ISBN: 0299204901
0299204944 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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)
Umutesi, Marie Béatrice,--1959-
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