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The Angels Have Left Us: The Rwanda Tragedy and the Churches (with foreword by Desmond Tutu).

Publication: African Studies Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-MAR-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Angels Have Left Us: The Rwanda Tragedy and the Churches (with foreword by Desmond Tutu).(Book review)

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The Angels Have Left Us: The Rwanda Tragedy and the Churches (with foreword by Desmond Tutu). Hugh McCullum. Geneva: WCC Publications, 2004. 132 pp.

The subject of the complicity of everyday citizens in the tragedy of the genocide in Rwanda has been thoroughly explored in both scholarly and popular literature. However, the issue of the complicity of churches of all faiths has a particular fascination. In fact, the title of perhaps the most widely read popular account of the genocide, We Wish to Inform you That Tomorrow we Will be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch comes directly from a letter written from Tutsi victims to the leader of the Adventist church in Mugonero. McCullum's book deals explicitly with only the religious relationship, including historical context, in Rwanda and is admittedly...

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