Machete season : the killers in Rwanda speak : a report /
by Jean Hatzfeld ; translated from the French by Linda Coverdale ; preface by Susan Sontag.
- 1st American ed.
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
- xiv, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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-D�esir�e 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.
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.