我们想通知你，明天我们和家人将被杀害
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families
Philip Gourevitch · 初版 1998 年
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这是一部令人难忘的第一手记述，记录了一个民族对大屠杀的应对及其所揭示的人性本质。这本出色的处女作记录了自 1994 年卢旺达政府号召 Hutu 多数族群谋杀 Tutsi 少数族群中的所有人以来，卢旺达及邻国所发生的一切。尽管屠杀手段十分原始——主要是用砍刀——却以惊人的速度推进：短短一百天内约有 80 万人惨遭灭绝。一位 Tutsi 牧师在写给身为 Hutu 的教会负责人的信中，使用了那句令人毛骨悚然的话语，这也正是 Philip Gourevitch 书名的由来。
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……没那么显眼，我是 Philip Gourevitch 的死忠粉。他的风格介于记者和随笔作家之间。他的许多文章都发表在《The New Yorker》上，其中一组关于卢旺达的文章最终集结成了一本书《We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families》（我们想通知你，明天我们一家都会被杀）。那绝对是顶级的非虚构写作。
…less obvious, I'm a big fan of Philip Gourevitch. He's somewhere between a reporter and an essayist. A lot of his essays appeared in The New Yorker, and a group of them on Rwanda eventually became a book We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families. That is outstanding non-fiction writing.
……没能讲清楚导致暴力的复杂政治和社会因素。要想对卢旺达大屠杀（Rwandan Genocide）有更深入的了解，很有必要去看看别的资料。比如 Philip Gourevitch 的《We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families》以及 Romeo Dallaire 的《Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda》，对这场冲突的解读更加全面细腻。这些书提供了第一手……
…fails to address the complex political and social factors that led to the violence. To gain a deeper understanding of the Rwandan Genocide, it is important to turn to other resources. Books such as "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families" by Philip Gourevitch and "Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda" by Romeo Dallaire provide a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the conflict. These books offer firsthand…
我在这里提一下，因为它跟你评论的内容沾点边。关于卢旺达大屠杀及其余波的那本《We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families》，帮我更好地理解了这个国家及其现状。这本书还有一个额外的好处，它是 1999 年出版的，所以几乎没掺杂什么文化战（culture war）成分……
I'll mention it here because it's tangentially related to your comment. The book "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families" about the Rwandan genocide and aftermath helped me understand the country and it's current state much better. The book has the added benefit of being from 1999 so has far fewer of the culture war components…
……是真正流动的。你在哪读到这说法的？我见过很多人这么说，但我从没见过任何能证明这是真的证据。我找到的唯一出处是 Philip Gourevitch 的书《We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families》，可我也没找到具体哪一页表面上提出了这个说法，只有一段没有出处的断言，称身份证让这种流动变得不可能。关于种姓制度也经常有类似的说法……
…were genuinely fluid. Where did you read this? I’ve seen many people make this claim but I’ve never seen any evidence that it’s true. The only source I have found for it is Philip Gourevitch’s book “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families” I could not find the actual page where this claim is ostensibly made, just an unsourced claim that the identity cards made such mobility impossible. A similar claim is often made about the caste system…
……嘿，不过就是一百万卢旺达人嘛。你听说过《防止及惩治灭绝种族罪公约》（Genocide Convention）吗？” > 我说听说过。 > “那个公约，”酒吧里的美国人说，“拿来包奶酪三明治倒是挺合适。” 出自 Philip Gourevitch 的《We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda》。
…Hey, just a million Rwandans. Did you ever hear about the Genocide Convention?" > I said I had. > "That convention," the American at the bar said, "makes a nice wrapping for a cheese sandwich." From "We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda" by Philip Gourevitch.
……注定失败。很多人会遵循直截了当的经济利益激励。但也有很大一部分人不会，哪怕后果是极端的且显而易见的损害。这让失败成了必然。[1] 参见《We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families》（https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Wish_to_Inform_You_That_Tom...）
…to fail. Many people will follow straight-forward economic incentives. But a very large number won't, even to their extreme and readily foreseeable detriment. That makes failure inevitable. [1] See "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Wish_to_Inform_You_That_Tom...)