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I picked up Shake Hands With the Devil on the recommendation of this thread and I've been reading it all morning thanks to a thunderstorm knocking out my internet. This is the most horrifying thing I have ever read, it has made me feel physically ill a couple of times. To make matters worse, I'm ashamed to admit that I thought the Rwandan genocide happened in the 70s or 80s, we literally never read a word about this in any textbook in school, or even heard a single blurb about it as it was happening from any teacher. The most I remember from childhood was my mother talking about taking care of a refugee at the free clinic who had machete cuts all up and down get legs that were totally healed over but horribly disfiguring... I just never knew a time frame for it. A great success of the education system in the 90s. Vietnam was covered by one paragraph in US history as well. Speaking of, I just bought my dad a copy of The Village. How is No True Glory, Bing's other book on Fallujah? That's been sitting in my pile for a few years now waiting to be read.
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