Touched by Fire
Doctors Without Borders in a Third World Crisis
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October 15, 1998
Leyton aims to make outsiders understand what is going on in Rwanda and many other countries and what makes workers for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)--which, as an independent organization, gets physicians more quickly into places where they are needed than, say, the UN--throw themselves selflessly into such horrible situations. Few will be able to read his devastating book without crying or becoming infuriated. Leyton, an anthropologist, focuses especially on MSF work in Rwanda during the genocides of 1994 and 1996, giving not a glossy media report but a down and dirty account, featuring individualized men, women, children, civilians, soldiers, and politicians as well as statistics. Genocide, he argues, is civilization's main tool for neatening populations and boundaries, and far from being a primitive invention or an African aberration, it is a European practice, begun by the 1895 and 1915 Turkish genocides of the Armenians. Black-and-white and color photos add much to Leyton's forceful, eye-opening text. ((Reviewed October 15, 1998))(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 1998, American Library Association.)
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