No Greater Love
How My Family Survived the Genocide in Rwanda
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Publisher Description
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.
Customer Reviews
No Greater Love!
What a moving, heart wrenching personal
family story! It was written with honesty and clarity and gave much greater depth to events that I remember reading about and hearing about from that time period of the mid to late ‘90’s. My heart was touched in a deeper way by means of the Seminega family’s personal ordeal