Machete Season
Jean Hatzfeld
Machete Season delves into the horrific genocide that took place in Rwanda in 1994, where 800,000 people were brutally murdered by their own neighbors. Journalist Jean Hatzfeld interviewed 10 perpetrators of these mass killings years later, revealing shocking and extraordinary insights. This book is a vital read to better comprehend the atrocious events that took place in Rwanda and to become a more conscientious individual.
Publish Date
2006-04-18T00:00:00.000Z
2006-04-18T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 2003
Goodreads Rating
4.06
ISBN
8601400952740
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2015-07-08T00:00:00.000Z
If you want to see what it’s like when things go about as wrong as they can go, read “Machete Season,” which is a short book about the Rwandan genocide that is, if I recall correctly, entirely borne of interviews with some of the main perpetrators of this genocide. So not merely the people who were swinging the machetes, but the people who were running those gangs and enforcing people’s membership therein.They invite you in there and they give you the full tour. It is uncanny that circumstances can come together culturally, neurophysiologically and otherwise so as to produce this kind of behaviour again with a clear conscience. So it is a short book and a very sobering one worth reading, if you can stomach that sort of thing. – source