Across the Red River: Rwanda, Burundi and the Heart of Darkness - Softcover

Jennings, Christian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0575400285 ISBN 13: 9780575400283

Publisher: Phoenix, 2001

Synopsis

Harrowing in its detail, yet often scathingly humorous, this first-hand account of the Central African nightmare exposes the baffling politics behind one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century.

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From the Publisher:

In the summer of 1994, Christian Jennings arrived in Rwanda with an almost impossible mission: he had five days to track down the army officers and government officials responsible for the slaughter of 850,000 people and persuade them to participate in a television documentary about their crimes. Nothing in his past prepared him for the three and a half years that followed. A devastating examination of politics and genocide.

About the Author:

SALES POINTS Across the Red River is an epic account of the terror and beauty of Central Africa, both moving and harrowing in its detail, and frequently appallingly funny In the tradition of Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English and We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families '[A] remarkable and important book' Scotsman 'Jennings rips open the baffling politics behind one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century' FHM '[With an] eye for detail and a novelist's ear for dialogue ... Christian Jennings has starkly documented the greatest humanitarian disaster since the Nazi holocaust in readable and surprisingly humorous prose' Daily Mail 'Jennings broad-brush pastiche [goes] a long way to explain why Africa is a continent in crisis' The Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Phoenix
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0575400285
• ISBN 13: 9780575400283
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 349