When The Hills Ask For Your Blood - A Personal Story of Genocide and Rwanda (Cód: 9620869)

'apos;Tremendous. A moving and haunting tribute to the human spirit'apos; WILLIAM BOYD

Into the heart of a genocide that left a million people dead

6 April 1994: In the skies above Rwanda the president'apos;s plane is shot down in flames. Near Kigali, Jean-Pierre holds his family close, fearing for their lives as the violence escalates. In the chapel of a hillside village, missionary priest Vjeko Curic prepares to save thousands of livesThe mass slaughter that follows - friends against friends, neighbours against neighbours - is one of the bloodiest chapters in history
Twenty years on, BBC Newsnight producer David Belton, one of the first journalists into Rwanda, tells of the horrors he experienced at first-hand. Now following the threads of Jean-Pierre and Vjeko Curic'apos;s stories, he revisits a country still marked with blood, in search of those who survived and the legacy of those who did not. This is David Belton'apos;s quest for the limits of bravery and forgiveness.