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A review by small_town_librarian
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculée Ilibagiza
5.0
A must read for everyone! A "cannot put this book down until I finish" book. A "my kids are ripping my house apart while I read a book" book.
How can this happen?
How can anyone hate someone they've never met this much?
How can you HATE anyone enough to kill them with a machete?
How can anyone kill an innocent child?
What has to happen for a whole society to view people as less than human?
How could this happen in our lifetime after WWII?
Conversely- how can a person survive 3 months amidst this hate and still have faith in God AND Mankind?
This book caught my attention after watching "Long Way Down" where Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman ride their motorbikes from the top of the world to the horn of Africa. They stopped at a museum built on a site where thousands of Tutsi people were massacred by Hutus back in the 90s. I was ashamed to not really know a thing about it. Now I do. So should you.
How can this happen?
How can anyone hate someone they've never met this much?
How can you HATE anyone enough to kill them with a machete?
How can anyone kill an innocent child?
What has to happen for a whole society to view people as less than human?
How could this happen in our lifetime after WWII?
Conversely- how can a person survive 3 months amidst this hate and still have faith in God AND Mankind?
This book caught my attention after watching "Long Way Down" where Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman ride their motorbikes from the top of the world to the horn of Africa. They stopped at a museum built on a site where thousands of Tutsi people were massacred by Hutus back in the 90s. I was ashamed to not really know a thing about it. Now I do. So should you.