Titanic Express by Richard Wilson
"Do you fester in hatred and seek revenge? Do you wallow in pity? Do you forgive? Do you blank it out? Or do you seek answers and justice? For much of the period I have known him, Richard Wilson has had to cope with precisely these issues. Today, he tells me he thinks he has found most of the answers after more than four years of painful investigation." - Jon Swain, "Sunday Times". "incredibly moving" - Ziauddin Sardar, "Independent". "An astonishing chronicle" - Bronwen Maddox, "The Times". "In his anguish, Wilson speaks to and for all who cannot easily put loss behind us and get on with life as if nothing has happened." - Peter Stanford, "Independent". On December 28th 2000, Charlotte Wilson, a 27 year old VSO worker, was killed when her bus, the inauspiciously-named Titanic Express, was ambushed in war-torn Burundi. The attackers were members of the Hutu-extremist FNL, a faction linked to those responsible for the Rwandan genocide. Twenty others died with Charlotte, including her Burundian fiance. One of the few survivors was given a chilling message for the Burundian government: "We're going to kill them all and there's nothing you can do". "Titanic Express" is a political detective story, a memoir of grief and a moving portrait of an extraordinary woman who died at the very moment she had found fulfilment. In gripping detail, Charlotte's brother Richard charts his painful struggle to unravel what happened that day, and to understand the complex and brutal history that lay behind it.
'His (Wilson) honesty carries the reader with himIntimate books charting an individual's quest only work if the author is prepared to show himself, warts and all. This Wilson does unflinchingly.... In his anguish, Wilson speaks to and for all who cannot easily put loss behind us as if nothing had happened.' Peter Stanford, The Independent 'incredibly moving.' Ziauddin Sardar, The Independent 'I have watched in growing admiration how, with dogged persistence, Richard Wilson has conducted a singular crusade, not just to bring his sister's murderers to justice, but to understand who they were and why they killed her.' Jon Swain, Sunday Times
Richard Wilson read philosophy at University College London before working in IT for five years. He lives in London, where he continues to campaign for justice over the Titanic Express and Gatumba massacres. This is his first book.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780826483164 |
| ISBN 10 | 082648316X |
| Titel | Titanic Express |
| Autor | Richard Wilson |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2007-04-12 |
| Seitenanzahl | 224 |
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