Machete season : the killers in Rwanda speak : a report

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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 testim...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hatzfeld, Jean
Other Authors: Coverdale, Linda (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
Subjects:
Tutsi (African people) > Crimes against > Rwanda > History > 20th century.
Hutu (African people) > Rwanda.
Genocide > Rwanda > History > 20th century.
Rwanda > History > Civil War, 1994 > Atrocities.
Rwanda > History > Civil War, 1994 > Personal narratives.
Rwanda > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century.
Personal narratives.
Table of Contents:
  • Early morning
  • How it was organized
  • The three hills
  • The first time
  • A gang
  • Apprenticeship
  • Group spirit
  • Taste and distaste
  • Going into action
  • Field work
  • A neighborhood genocide
  • Punishment
  • Some thoughts on corrugated metal
  • Looting
  • A sealed chamber
  • Rejoicing in the village
  • The disappearance of escape networks
  • Women
  • In search of the just
  • Acquaintances
  • Penitentiary walls
  • Suffering
  • Guys in good shape
  • And God in all this?
  • In the shade of an acacia
  • Remorse and regrets
  • Joseph-Désiré Bitero
  • The organizers
  • Behind the mudugudus
  • Life goes on
  • Bargaining for forgiveness
  • Pardons
  • A noble bearing
  • Hatred of the Tutsis
  • An unnatural slaughter
  • Words to avoid saying it
  • Death in the eye of a killer.

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