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Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
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A powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that Rwanda sold the world after one of the deadliest genocides of the twentieth century.We think we know the story of Africa's Great Lakes region. Following the Rwandan genocide, an idealistic group of young rebels overthrew the brutal regime in Kigali, ushering in an era of peace and stability that made Rwanda the donor darling of the West, winning comparisons with Switzerland and Singapore. But the truth was considerably more sinister. Vividly sourcing her story with direct testimony from key participants, Wrong uses the story of the murder of Patrick Karegeya, once Rwanda's head of external intelligence and a quicksilver operator of supple charm, to paint the portrait of a modern African dictatorship created in the chilling likeness of Paul Kagame, the president who sanctioned his former friend's assassination.
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"Nevertheless, Do Not Disturb knits all these critiques together in a way that is comprehensive and compelling—built around the Cain and Abel tale of two soul brothers who achieve political power only to be torn apart by jealousy and pride ..."
"Wrong's book is an eloquent and entirely convincing plea for that same glaze not to come over the world's eyes when uncomfortable truths are told."
"On the human level, it is an absorbing Shakespearean saga in which this duo shape the history of their continent before their falling out, which led to a squalid death in a South African hotel room in the final hours of 2013."
"Wrong's account unfolds on two separate planes."
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