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Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak
Machete Season The Killers in Rwanda Speak
Author: Jean Hatzfeld
During the spring of 1994, in a tiny country called Rwanda, some 800,000 people were hacked to death, one by one, by their neighbors in a gruesome civil war. Several years later, journalist Jean Hatzfeld traveled to Rwanda to interview ten participants in the killings, eliciting extraordinary testimony from these men about the genocide they perp...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780312425036
ISBN-10: 0312425031
Publication Date: 4/18/2006
Pages: 272
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Picador
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Fascinating look into the minds of 10 killers of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Hatzfeld does a commendable job of giving voice to the unimaginable. I can't find the words to describe what this book is about so I'll let those involved speak:
Berthe (a survivor) "Before, I knew that a man could kill another man, it happens all the time. Now I know that even the person with whom you've shared food, or with whom you've slept, even he can kill you with no trouble. That is what I have learned since the genocide, and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the earth."

Leopord, a killer, on why so many Tutsis remained silent as they were massacred: "The Tutsis were not asking for anything in those fatal moments because they no longer believed in words. An overpowering sorrow was carrying those people away. They felt so abandoned they did not even open their mouths."


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