Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak
by Jean Hatzfeld
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Author: Jean HatzfeldTranslator: Linda Coverdale
Preface: Susan Sontag
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-18
ISBN: 0312425031
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Picador
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- ISBN13: 9780312425036
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Book Review: Unbelievable!
Summary: 3 Stars
Reading this book is a sombering experience. In several interviews conducted with a group of killers, the author attempts to make sense as to why ordinary people became involved in the "low-tech" 1994 Rwandan genocide, not only killing repeatedly, but enjoying it, feeling excited about it and hardly understanding the severity of their actions. At the end of the book, we, the readers, are not any closer to a psychological solution of the mystery of human evil. I therefore resolved to go ahead and read "Cruelty" and "Worse than War" in an attempt to clarify to myself a few things. One more thing: I find it amazing that the new Tutsi government did not engage in a massive-scale retaliation against the Hutu killers. Allegedly only 33 people were officially executed in 1998.
Summary of Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak
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."
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