1994 a Novel of Rwanda

1994: A Novel Of Rwanda is a story of courage, hope, and perseverance in the face of genocide. It is the story of Straton Mulinga, a subsistence farmer of Butare Prefecture in southern Rwanda, who, when caught up in the insanity of the genocide, is separated from his family and forced to flee Rwanda and search for them in the squalor of the refugee camps in Tanzania. His young wife, Chantal, lives with the slender hope that Straton will somehow find her and their three children. From the people they meet along the way, they learn details of the horrors of the genocide. It is also the story of some very evil menâ Innocent Bagosora, Fabien Mukama, Evariste Gateraâ and two members of the Interahamwe, Claver Barate and Bosco Kagwa, all who have lost their humanity. And the story of Prosper Bugande, a Hutu, member of the Rwandan military who leads a group of rebels in the abduction of a medical team from Mwisa refugee camp.
A French doctor, Arianne DuBois, is one of the doctors abducted and taken to a remote place in Rwanda. In the ordeal she lives through, she is subjected to both the good and evil of the men holding her captive. Sean MacGregor, an American university professor, in East Africa studying elephant communications and intelligence, on learning of the plight of the hostages, mounts a rescue mission, only to become a hostage himself.
The disparate stories of Straton, Prosper, Innocent, Ari, and Sean converge in events that explore the limits of human endurance and the will to survive.

A native of the state of Utah, L.K. Branson now resides with his wife, Judy, in a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is a retired university professor whose work has taken him to many countries. He has lived and worked for extended periods in India and in Rwanda. His extensive travel in East Africa and work in Rwanda led him to dedicate several years to writing about the genocide. This book is the fruit of that long task. He is keenly concerned about the plight of the millions of peoples around the planet who continue to fall pre