Journal Entry 1 by Cassiopaeia from Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on Sunday, December 17, 2006

Winner of the 1995 Orwell Prize.

'Provides all the analysis you need; but as an eyewitness account of the carnage...it is also terrifyingly instructive, a photograph of hell' - Nicholas Lezard in the Guardian.

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remembering the genocide 

Journal Entry 2 by Cassiopaeia from Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on Monday, January 22, 2007

This is a short book, written in Fergal Keane’s hallmark, uncomplicated but nonetheless beautifully lyrical style. If you are familiar with his voice from his many broadcasts you can almost hear him speak the words in his clear musical tones and you feel and experience every excruciating second of this journey through Rwanda. I had to read this account quickly (over a period of 24 hours) because of the truly appalling pictures it painted in my mind; any longer would have been too difficult. How the team coped with what they saw, I will never comprehend; hardened as they are to the destruction of the world’s battlefields, I’m sure what they witnessed must have damaged their souls. One to read again but, not for some time.