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In April-May 1994, 800,000 Rwandan Tutsis were massacred by their Hutu fellow citizens--about 10,000 a day, mostly being hacked to death by machete. In Machete Season , the veteran foreign correspondent Jean Hatzfeld reports on the results of his interviews with nine of the Hutu killers. They... read more
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In April the nocturnal rains often leave in their wake black clouds that mask the first rays of the sun.
Table of Contents edit
Preface
Maps
Chronology of Events in Rwanda and Especially in Nyamata
Chapter 1 - Early Morning
Chapter 2 - How it was Organized
Chapter 3 - The Three Hills
Chapter 4 - The First Time
Chapter 5 - A Gang
Chapter 6 - Apprenticeship
Chapter 7 - Group Spirit
Chapter 8 - Taste and Distaste
Chapter 9 - Going Into Action
Chapter 10 - Field Work
Chapter 11 - A Neighborhood Genocide
Chapter 12 - Punishment
Chapter 13 - Some Thoughts on Corrugated Metal
Chapter 14 - Looting
Chapter 15 - A Sealed Chamber
Chapter 16 - Rejoicing in the Village
Chapter 17 - The Disappearance of Escape Networks
Chapter 18 - Women
Chapter 19 - In Search of the Just
Chapter 20 - Acquaintances
Chapter 21 - Penitentiary Walls
Chapter 22 - Suffering
Chapter 23 - Guys in Good Shape
Chapter 24 - And God in all This?
Chapter 25 - In the Shade of an Acacia
Chapter 26 - Remorse and Regrets
Chapter 27 - Joseph-Desire Bitero
Chapter 28 - The Organizers
Chapter 29 - Behind the Mudugudus
Chapter 30 - Life Goes On
Chapter 31 - Bargaining for Forgiveness
Chapter 32 - Pardons
Chapter 33 - A Noble Bearing
Chapter 34 - Hatred of the Tutsis
Chapter 35 - An Unnatural Slaughter
Chapter 36 - Words to Avoid Saying It
Chapter 37 - Death in the Eye of a Killer
The Killers
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This book is in Never Again: Atrocities of the 20th Century. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jean Hatzfeld (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Linda Coverdale (Translator) - Translated from French
- Susan Sontag (Preface)
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Original Language: French
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Country: France
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Page Count: 253
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- Library of Congress: DT450.435 .H3914 2005
- Dewey: 967.5710431
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