A Time for Machetes - The Rwandan Genocide - The Killers Speak (Paperback)

In April-May 1994, 800,000 Rwandan Tutsis were massacred by their Hutu fellow citizens - about 10,000 a day - most of them hacked to death by machete. In the late 1990s, French author and journalist Jean Hatzfeld made several journeys into the hilly, marshy region of Bugesara, one of the areas most devastated by the genocide. He interviewed both killers and survivors and A Time for Machetes is the result of his interviews with nine of the Hutu killers. Most of the men were farmers, ordinary men. They told Hatzfeld how the work was given to them, what they thought about it how they did it, what their responses were to the first time they killed and what they felt when they killed a mother and child or an acquaintance. Hatzfeld's meditation on the banal, horrific testimony of the killers is lucid, humane, and wise. To read this disturbing, enlightening, brave book is to consider human morality and ethics in a new light.

General

Imprint:	Serpent's Tail
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2005
Authors:	Jean Hatzfeld
Translators:	Linda Coverdale
Preface by:	Susan Sontag
Dimensions:	220mm (L)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-85242-882-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Books > Humanities > History > African history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > War crimes > Genocide Books > History > African history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Promotions
LSN:	1-85242-882-1
Barcode:	9781852428822

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