Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak

Subtitle:: The Killers in Rwanda Speak
Author:: Jean Hatzfeld
Format:: Softcover

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Short description

A veteran foreign correspondent reports on the results of his interviews with nine Hutus who helped to kill 50,000 out of their 59,000 Tutsi neighbors. This testimony of the Rwanda horror reconsiders the foundation of human morality and ethics.

Long description

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. As Susan Sontag wrote in the preface, Machete Season is a document that everyone should read . . . because making] the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda . . . is part of being a moral adult.

Product details

Translator:: Linda Coverdale
Contributor:: Susan Sontag
Publisher:: Picador USA
ISBN:: 9780312425036
Publication date:: April 2006
Length:: 213mm
Width:: 140mm
Thickness:: 18mm
Weight:: 240g
Pages:: 253
Illustrations:: illustrations
Illustrated:: Illustrated

Review

Hatzfeld's harrowing documentation of the voices of Rwandan killers reminds us once again how perfectly human it can be to be perfectly inhumane. --Philip Gourevitch
Monstrous in scope, unfathomable in cruelty, annihilating in implication, the concept of genocide all but defies imagination. That is why reading Jean Hatzfeld's interviews with perpetrators of the 1994 Rwanda massacre is so profoundly disturbing. -- The Baltimore Sun
Stunning . . . What makes the book so astonishing are . . . the voices of the men, many of whom speak in a kind of chilling, breathtaking poetry. -- O magazine