![]() ![]() A few years later he watches as Hutu extremists, attacking a supposedly protected Rwandan refugee camp, gang-rape a family friend. His baby sister dies in his mother’s arms as they trek toward the frontier. ![]() As ethnic hatred spills out across the border, the Bagogwe, who belong to the targeted Tutsi minority, are transformed into strangers in their own land.ĭogon is 3 when he sees his uncle beheaded by a militiaman. Dogon’s family, members of eastern Congo’s Bagogwe community, has become collateral in neighboring Rwanda’s ongoing genocide. There’s a certain irony to the complaint, for those who have felt misgivings about the country of Dogon’s birth will finish this book with many of their prejudices confirmed.ĭogon’s story begins in 1995, when his family hits the road running, warned that local villagers - neighbors they laughed, chatted and drank with - are headed their way, bent on slaughter. THOSE WE THROW AWAY ARE DIAMONDS A Refugee’s Search for Home By Mondiant Dogon with Jenna KrajeskiĪt one point in Mondiant Dogon’s poignant memoir, “Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds,” the author takes issue with the negative associations that cling, cobweb-like, to the Democratic Republic of Congo, which he remembers as “the most alive place in the world,” a fertile Garden of Eden. ![]()
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