The novel Life Laid Bare by Jean Hatzfeld depicts the personal accounts of the survivors of the Rwandan Genocide in the east-central African nation of Rwanda during April-July of 1994. The Rwandan Genocide was a mass murdering of approximately 800,000 Tutsi minorities and moderate Hutus by the Hutu ethnic majority. This genocide took place because of power struggles between the two dominant tribes and they had always been enemies for years. There was always tension and disagreement among the two closely related groups of people. The genocide started on the morning of April 7th, a day after Hutu Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana’s and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira’s plane was shot down mid-air above the Kigali airport while preparing to land. There have been speculations and assumptions, but to this day nobody knows the truth of who actually shot down the plane. This event sparked the genocide and provided the Hutus a perfect …show more content…
Most people want to forget about this terrible, tragic event in history, but in reality we need to learn from our past and improve for the future so that something like this does not happen again at any point of time around the world in society. I believe the audience would truly appreciate to read this novel because I know I really did love the novel. The bravery, openness, and honesty of these victims during the interviews leaves me awestruck and really makes the book persuasive and effective. What strikes me the most about this novel is why and how can individuals do something like this to other people. It is morally wrong and this is not the way to solve conflict at all, I would never be able to bring myself to kill another human being. Genocide is an unfortunate part of life that is very tough to prevent when it begins to happen and has no clear