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Name: Season of blood
Author: Fergal Keane

In Rwanda, when President Habyarimana's plane was shot down in April 1994, a hundred-day orgy of killing began, leaving up to a million dead. Fergal Keane, a journalist, traveled through the country as the genocide was ongoing, and his powerful analysis uncovers the terrible truth behind the headlines. As he reports from a country devastated by the violence, Keane reveals the planning and execution of the genocide, which he describes as a 'tender, angry account' that is 'A scathing indictment of the violence that was inflicted on the Tutsis' (independent).

First publish date: 1995

Genre: History/Modern History

Authors: Fergal Keane

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