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  • In Praise of Blood

  • The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
  • By: Judi Rever
  • Narrated by: Justine Eyre
  • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (12 ratings)
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In Praise of Blood

By: Judi Rever
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
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Summary

 

  • 2018 winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
  • 2018 winner of The Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Award - Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction

A stunning work of investigative reporting by a Canadian journalist who has risked her own life to bring us a deeply disturbing history of the Rwandan genocide that takes the true measure of Rwandan head of state Paul Kagame.

Through unparalleled interviews with RPF defectors, former soldiers, and atrocity survivors, supported by documents leaked from a UN court, Judi Rever brings us the complete history of the Rwandan genocide. Considered by the international community to be the saviors who ended the Hutu slaughter of innocent Tutsis, Kagame and his rebel forces were also killing, in quiet and in the dark, as ruthlessly as the Hutu genocidaire were killing in daylight. The reason why the larger world community hasn't recognized this truth? Kagame and his top commanders effectively covered their tracks and, post-genocide, rallied world guilt and played the heroes in order to attract funds to rebuild Rwanda and to maintain and extend the Tutsi sphere of influence in the region.

Judi Rever, who has followed the story since 1997, has marshaled irrefutable evidence to show that Kagame's own troops shot down the presidential plane on April 6, 1994 - the act that put the match to the genocidal flame. She proves, without a shadow of doubt, that as Kagame and his forces slowly advanced on the capital of Kigali, they were ethnically cleansing the country of Hutu men, women, and children in order that returning Tutsi settlers, displaced since the early '60s, would have homes and land. 

This audiobook is heartbreaking, chilling, and necessary.

©2018 Judi Rever (P)2018 Penguin Random House Canada
  • Unabridged Audiobook
  • Categories: History

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“Rever chronicles the largely unreported and cynically discounted view of the Rwandan genocide. A dogged reporter and skillful writer, Rever eschews what she calls the ‘Hollywood version of good guys and bad guys’ to meticulously document a chapter in recent history that is as complicated as it is dismaying. In making her case, she risks everything - her life included - to expose the crimes of Rwanda’s current brutal government. Rever’s harrowing narrative isn’t just a portrait of a tragic time; it also stands as an uncompromising prosecution of that period and its ongoing consequences. In Praise of Blood is an undeniably important story told by a remarkably brave writer.” (2018 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction Jury)

“Groundbreaking work that significantly changes what we know about the Rwandan genocide.” (The Globe and Mail)

In Praise of Blood explores how Washington helped obscure the full story of the genocide that devastated Rwanda during the 1990s and cover up the crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which has ruled the country ever since. Over the years, less valiant portraits of Kagame and the RPF have appeared.... In Praise of Blood is the most accessible and up-to-date of these studies.... Kagame’s regime and its defenders have dismissed them all as propaganda.... Rever’s account will prove difficult to challenge. She has been writing about Central Africa for more than twenty years, and her book draws on the reports of UN experts and human rights investigators, leaked documents from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and hundreds of interviews with eyewitnesses, including victims, RPF defectors, priests, aid workers, and officials from the UN and Western governments. Her sources are too numerous and their observations too consistent for her findings to be a fabrication.” (Helen Epstein, The New York Review of Books

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true story

Thank yo so much Judi Rever for taking so many risks for our country's history. My father belongs to those taken after the genocide in 94 by the RPF. His wereabouts are unknown until now :(

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The truth may shake your core belief

I guess the full truth will always be hard to digest but this book just changed the outlook on the "truth" i thought i knew for the last 27 years.
The narrator tried to horribly immitate the rwandese accent which was not really necessary.

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Must read for anyone interested in Rwanda and the genocide

A fascinating addition to the story of the genocide that the world thinks it knows, written by a courageous investigator. The excellent narration adds to the suspense of this enlightening report into ethnic killings and the very event that sparked the genocide in Rwanda.

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