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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.

By: Hatzfeld, JeanMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005Edition: 1st American edDescription: xiv, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780312425036; 0312425031; 0374280827; 9780374280826Uniform titles: Saison de machettes. English Subject(s): Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Atrocities | Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Personal narratives | Tutsi (African people) -- Crimes against -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century | Hutu (African people) -- Rwanda | Genocide -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century | Rwanda -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century | Atrocities | Ethnic relations | Genocide | Hutu (African people) | Tutsi (African people) -- Crimes against | Rwanda | Rwandan Civil War (Rwanda : 1994) | 1900-1999 | Tutsi (African people) -- Rwanda -- History | Offenses against the person -- Rwanda -- History | Hutu (African people) -- Rwanda | Genocide -- Rwanda -- History | Rwanda -- History -- 1994, Civil War -- Atrocities | Rwanda -- History -- 1994, Civil War -- Personal narratives | Rwanda -- Ethnic relations -- HistoryGenre/Form: History. | Personal narratives. | Personal narratives.DDC classification: 967.57104/31 LOC classification: DT450.435 | .H3914 2005
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-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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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