Dying to Live: A Rwandan Family's Five-Year Flight Across the Congo
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (805 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1926824784 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 190 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-29 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Vivid imagery, a new perspective Pierre shares his families harrowing story of fleeing the violence in Rwanda for 7 horrifying months on foot through the Congo. It is interesting to read this account of the Rwandan violence from a Hutu's perspective, because I have previously been exposed only to the Tutsi perspective (specifically, Immaculée Ilibagiza's book). Pierre (and his family) harrowingly demonstrates what the will to sacrifice his life for his family's survival looks like
This brilliant and touching book is the story of one family among the more than 300,000 refugees—many of whom did not survive. Thus began a harrowing five-year voyage of survival during which they travelled thousands of miles on foot from one refugee camp to another. Pierre-Claver Ndacyayisenga was teaching history in Kigali, Rwanda, when he was forced to flee to the neighboring Congo with his wife and three children. Lacking food and water, they were often robbed, sometimes raped, and constantly pursued and bombed by shadowy armed soldiers with sophisticated weapons and aerial surveillance information. For those wishing to understand the war in the Congo, this must-read will restore the humanity and the