Machete Season
The Killers in Rwanda Speak
Ten men who killed their neighbours explain, calmly, how it came to seem like ordinary work
Hatzfeld interviewed ten Hutu men imprisoned for killing during the Rwandan genocide, many of whom murdered neighbours they had known all their lives. They speak plainly, sometimes with boredom, about how the killing became routine work with hours and quotas. The book is unbearable precisely because nobody in it presents as a monster.
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