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Uniform Title Fuir ou Mourir au Zaïre. English
Title Surviving the slaughter [electronic resource] : the ordeal of a Rwandan refugee in Zaire / Marie Béatrice Umutesi ; foreword by Catharine Newbury ; translated by Julia Emerson.
Author Umutesi, Marie Béatrice, 1959-
Published Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004.


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Description xix, 258 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
ISBN 0299204901
0299204944
Note "Originally published in France as Fuir ou mourir au Zaïre"--T.p. verso.
Contents I discover my ethnic identity -- Increasing violence -- Descent into Hell -- Survival in the camps at Kivu -- A difficult choice -- Pursued westward -- Hunted by the rebels and the RPF -- The death camp at Tingi-Tingi -- Hunger on the road -- My life for ten dollars -- The end of the ordeal.
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Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Scholarly Publishing Office, 2009. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Series Women in Africa and the diaspora.
Subject Umutesi, Marie Béatrice, 1959-
Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Refugees.
Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Personal narratives.
Genocide -- Rwanda.
Rwanda -- Ethnic relations.
Refugees -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Rwandans -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Other Author American Council of Learned Societies.

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