Machete season : the killers in Rwanda speak : a report /

Hatzfeld, Jean.

Machete season : the killers in Rwanda speak : a report / by Jean Hatzfeld ; translated from the French by Linda Coverdale ; preface by Susan Sontag. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. - xiv, 251 p. : maps ; 21 cm.

"Picador."

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-Dâesirâe 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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Tutsi (African people)--Crimes against--History--Rwanda--20th century.
Hutu (African people)--Rwanda.
Genocide--History--Rwanda--20th century.


Rwanda--History--Atrocities.--Civil War, 1994
Rwanda--History--Civil War, 1994--Personal narratives.
Rwanda--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.