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Subtitled, "The Rwandan Genocide: The Killers Speak". Published with its sister volume "Into The Quick Of Life", this is the result of interviews with 9 of the Hutu killers, all of whom are now in prison. A disturbing insight into how ordinary people can commit atrocities.
Synopsis
In April-May 1994 in Rwanda, 800,000 Rwandan Tutsis were massacred by their Hutu fellow citizens - more than 10,000 a day, mostly being hacked to death by machete. This book reports on the results of the author's interviews with nine of the Hutu killers. It elicits testimony from these men about the genocide they perpetrated.
