Linda Melvern

This publication from the award-winning photographer Pieter Hugo bears unflinching witness to a landscape still scarred by genocide 10 years after the fact. Under Hugo’s deferential gaze, it is not the visceral horrors that shock, but the lingering ephemera of everyday life that haunt the periphery. Published for the first time in a limited edition of 500 and accompanied by a specially commissioned essay from investigative journalist Linda Melvern, Rwanda 2004: Vestiges of a Genocide show more offers a forensic exposition of tragedy that spares us the burden of judgment – but confronts us instead with far more frightening questions about our own humanity. show less

I bought this at a genocide memorial in Kigali. It is a very frank discussion about how the West and the UN failed Rwanda in the genocide, recounting the events leading up to the disaster and the entire story of the slaughter of 1 million people in 3 short months in the final decade of the 20th Century.

First edition, 500 copies. Signed by Damian Poulain (2011) and Peter Hugo (2012). Offerde on the internet in 2022 for over Euro 300,- (unsigned).

A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide by Linda Melvern (2000)