We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

The title is the letter Tutsi pastors sent to their Hutu church president before the genocide. Gourevitch was in Rwanda shortly after and produced the most morally serious account of the hundred days that killed eight hundred thousand people. The title contains the entire argument: these people knew what was coming, told those who could have helped, and were failed. Not abandoned. Failed.