>(Read in 2018) * Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/215758.Shake_Hands_with_... Still reading it every few weeks and its hanging over my head to finally finish it. Not something you want to read, but a book like few i have read before.
Oooh. Added to my list. I read Man's Search for Meaning this year and man that's a bleak, hard-hitting book. Just such a gripping experience reading that. I've recently bought a copy of The Gulag Archipelago which is a historical account of the Gulag in Soviet Russia. Will definitely add Rwanda to the list. I think these books are so important to read. They're absolutely horrifying, but lest we forget where those ide…
They're more bite-size than Solzhenitsyn's behemoths, and perhaps more literary than documentary, but address some similar atrocities from a very unique and human point of view. In particular, her very humble voice for the feminine experience (one that's historically absent from political and "military" histories) is enlightening and provocative. It also helps that she's a fantastic story-teller – fitting neatly into a long genealogy of excellent Russian storytellers.
I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment. The world might be a better place, if only every person in a position of power spent some period of their life ruminating this tragic corner of world literature.