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Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak
Machete Season The Killers in Rwanda Speak
Author: Jean Hatzfeld
In April-May 1994, 800,000 Rwandan Tutsis were massacred by their Hutu fellow citizens--about 10,000 a day, mostly being hacked to death by machete. In Machete Season, the veteran foreign correspondent Jean Hatzfeld reports on the results of his interviews with nine of the Hutu killers. They were all friends who came from a single region ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780374280826
ISBN-10: 0374280827
Publication Date: 6/15/2005
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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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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