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Author Hatzfeld, Jean.

Uniform Title Saison de machettes. English
Title Machete season : the killers in Rwanda speak : a report / by Jean Hatzfeld ; translated from the French by Linda Coverdale ; preface by Susan Sontag.

Imprint New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  967.5710431 H289m 2005    ---  Available
Edition 1st American ed.
Description xiv, 253 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Contents Early morning -- How it was organized -- The three hills -- The first time -- A gang -- Apprenticeship -- Group spirit -- Taste and distaste -- Going into action -- Field work -- A neighborhood genocide -- Punishment -- Some thoughts on corrugated metal -- Looting -- A sealed chamber -- Rejoicing in the village -- The disappearance of escape networks -- Women -- In search of the just -- Acquaintances -- Penitentiary walls -- Suffering -- Guys in good shape -- And God in all this? -- In the shade of an acacia -- Remorse and regrets -- Joseph-Desire Bitero -- The organizers -- Behind the mudugudus -- Life goes on -- Bargaining for forgiveness -- Pardons -- A noble bearing -- Hatred of the Tutsis -- An unnatural slaughter -- Words to avoid saying it -- Death in the eye of a killer.
Subject Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Atrocities.
Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Personal narratives.
Tutsi (African people) -- Crimes against -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century.
Hutu (African people) -- Rwanda.
Genocide -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century.
Rwanda -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 0374280827 (alk. paper)
9780374280826 (alk. paper)

 
    
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