When The Hills Ask For Your Blood: A Personal Story of Genocide and Rwanda

A moving, personal account of the Rwandan genocide by the co-writer of SHOOTING DOGS, and an introduction to Vjeko Curic, a modern-day Schindler who saved an estimated 5,000 lives.

Into the heart of a genocide that left a million people dead 6 April 1994: In the skies above Rwanda the president's plane is shot down in flames.

The orgy of killing that follows – friends against friends, neighbours against neighbours - is one of the bloodiest chapters in African history Meanwhile, near Kigali, Jean-Pierre makes breakfast for his family, fearing for their lives as the violence escalates. In the chapel of a hillside village, missionary priest Vjeko Curic prepares to save thousands of lives.

Twenty years on, BBC Newsnight producer David Belton, one of the first journalists into Rwanda, is still coming to terms with the horrors he experienced at first hand. Now following the threads of Jean-Pierre and Vjeko Curic's stories, he revisits a country still marked with blood, in search of those who survived and the legacy of those who did not. Leading us into the emotional heart of the genocide, he uncovers extraordinary truths about the limits of bravery and forgiveness.