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Machete season, the killers in Rwanda speak : a report, by Jean Hatzfeld ; translated from the French by Linda Coverdale ; preface by Susan Sontag

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Machete season

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by Jean Hatzfeld ; translated from the French by Linda Coverdale ; preface by Susan Sontag

the killers in Rwanda speak : a report

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 perpetrated

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