13 Quotes by Philip Gourevitch about rwanda
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Sitting with Sindikubwabo [former President of Rwanda in exile in Zaire] as he offered what sounded like a rehearsal of the defense-by-obfuscation he was preparing for the tribunal, I had the impression that he almost yearned to be indicted, even apprehended, in order to have a final hour in the spotlight.
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My own parents and grandparents came to the United States as refugees from Nazism. They came with stories similar to Odette's ...
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Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.
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The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.
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