We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families... “The killers killed all day…at night they…went out to feast” (Phillip Gourevitch)

It was April 1994.

While Americans were soaking in the juice of the OJ Simpson trial, the UN was losing ground and fleeing a country on the brink of genocide.

We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families is an in depth investigation not only covering the annihilation of 800,00 lives in Rwanda Africa but also the destruction of trust families and allies alike.

Phillip Gourevitch stuns readers with a detailed history of power struggles between Rwanda’s Hutsis and Tutsis, resulting in hate, murder, and eventually genocide… this while the UN slowly backed out, barren of sufficient support to intercede. Gourevitch reveals heroes, tyrants, victims and data, and countless interviews. This was an event not silent to the ears of surrounding powerful countries. The message was not silent, but the message was ominously silenced.
This story of genocide within three month’s time is a story to the world, told too late, but not without a message. Why Rwanda’s plea for mercy was treated with almost indifferent attitudes is an unanswered question. Let us try to assume other events were happening in these powerful countries which prioritized over hundred thousands of lives.

Appallingly, there is little evidence for such a case. The world stood by.

There is a pleasure in telling a tragic tale. Ignorance among media is rarely absent after the bloody fact. Of course, the headlines never would have had such a "scoop" if the plea for help were heeded. Maybe OJ Simpson would have presided the US headlines one more day.