No greater love : how my family survived the genocide in Rwanda /

No greater love : how my family survived the genocide in Rwanda /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Seminega, Tharcisse, 1941- author.
Imprint:	Davenport, Iowa : GM & A Publishing, [2019] ©2019
Description:	xxiv, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Seminega, Tharcisse, -- 1941- Seminega, Tharcisse, -- 1941- -- Family. Genocide survivors -- Rwanda -- Biography. Tutsi (African people) -- Crimes against -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century. Genocide -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century. Rwandan Genocide, Rwanda, 1994. Atrocities. Families. Genocide. Genocide survivors. Tutsi (African people) -- Crimes against. Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Atrocities. Rwanda. Autobiography Biography Autobiographies. Biographies. History. Autobiographies. Biographies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12738711

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Other authors / contributors:	Roth, John K., writer of foreword.
ISBN:	9781937188030 1937188035
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"During 100 days in Spring 1994, Rwanda's descent into terror took an estimated 800,000 lives. The fastest-moving genocide in modern times was horrifying for its intimacy: Killers and victims were neighbors, friends, fellow churchgoers, workmates, even spouses. Murderers did their 'work' with crude implements -- machetes, hoes, nail-studded clubs -- and lists of those doomed to die. This was the terrifying reality for Tharcisse Seminega, a Tutsi professor at the National University of Rwanda in Butare. He was specifically targeted for slaughter, along with his wife, Chantal, and five children, with all hope of escape cut off -- until help arrived in the form of Hutu rescuers who repeatedly put themselves in mortal danger to save Seminega's family from the machetes. No Greater Love is the true story of unwavering courage and extraordinary love shown by ordinary people who offered a ray of hope during one of humanity's most horrific self-inflicted tragedies."--Back cover

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Prologue - On Memoir and Memory
Introduction
Map
Chapter 1. A Simple Boyhood (1941-1955)
Chapter 2. Hearts Turn to God and to Hate (1955-1962)
Chapter 3. The Tutsi Diaspora: Our Years in Exile (1962-1976)
Chapter 4. Trapped in My Homeland (1976-1988)
Chapter 5. Stepping Into the Maelstrom (1988-1994)
Chapter 6. Open the Floodgates of Hate
Chapter 7. Amidst Friend and Foe
Chapter 8. A Mud Wall Between Us and Death
Chapter 9. Alive in "the Grave"
Chapter 10. Let There Be Light
Epilogue
Appendices
1. Testimonies of the Righteous Among the Hutu
2. Voicing My Family's Genocide Experiences
3. Historical Documents of the 1940's to the 1960's
4. Timeline of Key Events of Rwanda's History up to 1994
5. List of Abbreviations and Key Persons and Places
Bibliography
Index