Machete Season

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During the spring of 1994, in a tiny country called Rwanda, some 800,000 people were hacked to death, one by one, by their neighbors in a gruesome civil war Several years later, journalist Jean Hatzfeld traveled to Rwanda to interview ten participants in the killings, eliciting extraordinary testimony from these men about the genocide they perpetrated As Susan Sontag wrote in the preface, Machete Season is a document that everyone should read because making the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda is part of being a moral adult. Free Read [ Machete Season ] Author [ Jean Hatzfeld ] – kino-fada.fr IL MALE NON MAI BANALEDopo un paio di lavori dedicati ai sopravvissuti, les rescap s, Hatzfeld cambia prospettiva e si dedica a intervistare i carnefici, a dare la parola ai genocidari.Entrare nel cuore nero di un assassino, di un boia, parrebbe pi arduo che comprendere le ragioni delle vittime, verso le quali l empatia spontanea, e il processo ...This gentleman I killed at the marketplace, I can tell you the exact memory of it because he was the first For others, it s murky I cannot keep track any in my memory I considered them unimportant at the time of those murders I didn t even notice the tiny thing that would change me into a killer Susan Sontag wrote the preface for Jean Hatzfeld s book Machete Season She says To make the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda is a painful task that we have no right to shirk it iThis gentleman I killed at the marketplace, I can tell you the exact memory of it because he was the first For others, it s murky I cannot keep track any in my memory I considered them unimportant at the...With some books you get exactly what you expected, which in this case, was a bunch of ordinary guys from Rwanda talking about killing people with machetes, a lot They were all interviewed at length in prison During the killings I no longer considered anything in the Tutsi except the person has to be done away with I want to make clear that from the first gentleman I killed to the last, I was not sorry about a single one.For anyone who needs reminding, the events described in this so easy to re With some books you get exactly what you expected, which in this case, was a bunch of ordinary guys from Rwanda talking about killing people with machetes, a lot They were all interviewed at length in prison During the killings I n...Ours is appallingly, an age of genocide, but even so, what happened in Rwanda in the spring of 1994 stands out in several ways In a tiny, landlocked African country smaller than the state of Maryland, some 800,000 people were hacked to death, one by one, by their neighbors The women, men, and children who were slaughtered were of the same race and shared the same language, customs, and confession Roman Catholic as those who eagerly slaughtered them pg 5 All this in twelve weeks Hatzfie Ours is appallingly, an age of genocide, but even so, what happened in Rwanda in the spring of 1994 stands out in several ways In a tiny, landlocked African country smaller than the state of Maryland, some 800,000 people were hacked to death, one by one, by their neighbors The women, men, a...Amazement That s my reaction to this book So this journalist visits a Ruwandan prison and gets six of the Hutu executioners during the 1994 genocide to speak freely about their crimes This time it is not a novel writer doing his best to sound spooky, this time it is not some sane, decent person like Primo Levy describing mass murder from the victim s side This time you get to the other side, as close as you can get to the real core of horror What these men did goes so far beyond my experien Amazement That s my reaction to this book So this journalist visits a Ruwandan prison and gets six of the Hutu executioners during the 1994 genocide to speak freely about their crimes This time it is not a novel writer doing his best to sound spooky, this time it...I noticed that one of my Goodreads friends who is a Holocaust librarian was reading this book, so I decided to follow his lead Words cannot begin to convey the depth and complexity of emotions which this book elicits More than anything else, it is devastating, and insightful giving the reader a glimpse into the minds of the Hutu killers during the Rwandan genocide.All I can do is provide you with one small, chilling example of what one Hutu farmer thought when asked about the word genocide Pi I noticed that one of my Goodreads friends who is a Holocaust librarian was reading this book, so I decided to follow his lead Words cannot begin to convey the depth and complexity of emotions which this book elicits More than anything els...This book is absolutely horrifying as it deals with first hand accounts of several killers from Rwanda during the genocide I think I was looking for some kind of insight into the mentality of these killers, and how seemingly normal people could commit ...This book is largely comprised of interviews from the men who perpetrated the 1994 genocide in Rwanda I definitely enjoyed the authenticity of hearing from e men themselves The author also inserts some background information and occasional observations about the nature of genocide.I enjoyed several things about this book 1 It gave me a great understanding of the historical background for the events in Rwanda.2 It gave me a small sense of what it would have been like to be there during the ev This book is largely comprised of interviews from the men who perpetrated the 1994 genocide in Rwanda I definitely enjoyed the authenticity of hearing from e men themselves The author also inserts some background information and occasional observations about the nature of genocide.I enjoyed several things about this book 1 It gave me a great understanding of the historical background for the events in Rwanda.2 It gave me a small sense of what it would have been like to be there during the events The book recorded mundane details like the killers daily routines.3 It probed the psychology and social mechanisms that would allow something like this to happen One factor, for instance, was the fact that people had to be personally involved in the killings or be perceived as sympathetic to the Tutsis In some cases they killed in order to avoid being killed This dynamic in turn, seemed to develop because the killers wanted the guilt to be distributed Th...If killers come to church to pray to God on their knees, to show us their remorse, I cannot pray either with them or against them Real regrets are said eye to eye, not to statues of God The accommodation of killers is not my concern Gaspard, a survivor.This book opens up a real big historical and philosophical can of worms Hatzfeld interviews a group of friends in prison who actively participated in the Rwandan genocide The most anti Tutsi of them killed the least The man who had never If killers come to church to pray to God on their knees, to show us their remorse, I cannot pray either with them or against them Real regrets are said eye to eye, not to statues of God The accommodation of killers is not my concern Gaspard, a survivor.This book opens up a real big historical and philosophical can of worms Hatzfeld interviews a group of friends in prison who actively participated in the Rwandan genocide The most anti Tutsi of them killed the least The man who had never before considered that the Tutsi were not equal to the Hutu premeditated their genocide months in advance The killers barely seem to own up to their participation in the genocide, and their egocentrism ...Since In a tiny, landlocked African country smaller than the state of Maryland, some 800,000 people were hacked to death, one by one, by their neighbors The women, men, and children who were slaughtered were of the same race and shared the same language, customs, and confession Roman Catholic as those who eagerly slaughtered them p.vii and When there has been one genocide there...

Machete Season
  • English
  • 18 December 2017
  • Paperback
  • 253 pages
  • 0312425031
  • Jean Hatzfeld
  • Machete Season