Yüz Gün

In April 1994, one of the worst genocides in history took place in Rwanda. Extremist Hutu militias, openly supported by the ruling Hutu, killed a total of eight hundred thousand people, the vast majority of whom were Tutsis and moderate Hutus, in about one hundred days. Western countries, especially Belgium and France, which had been actively "involved" in Rwanda for many years, literally stood by and watched the massacre.

Swiss author Lukas Bärfuss writes a novel about this massacre, and more importantly, this complicity, in One Hundred Days. Trying to react to all forms of racism and injustice, David, with these feelings, joins the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, which has been operating in Rwanda for thirty years, and comes to the country's capital, Kigali. He quickly becomes disillusioned with the routine activities of the Organization members, who try to maintain good relations with the current government, without getting involved in anything serious, as there is no one who speaks the language spoken in the country, and begins to question the Organization and his own function. When the massacre begins, he refuses to board the plane that is evacuating the last foreigners in the country, in the hope of reaching his Hutu lover Agathe, with whom he has a tense relationship. And he becomes both a witness to and an accomplice to the brutality that takes place.

Yes, it is a very harsh - but well-written, readable novel.



Number of Pages: 168

Year of Publication: 2010


Language: Turkish
Publishing House: Metis Publishing

Year of First Printing: 2010

Number of Pages: 168

Language: Turkish