Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak

The way the author comes at the Rwandan genocide, through one to one interviews is fascinating. It's very depicting, taking you through that harrowing chapter in history, without showing any disturbing pictures. This book will get you thinking about what you think you know so far. Not only does he get them talking on the exact moments on the genocide but they open themselves to offer details on the previous years where they used to live, hang out and get along with the victims.Not a light reading.

This book is one that I had heard about through the Jako Podcast. From the short excerpts I had heard, I was almost instantly interested. It should be known, however, this is not exactly a book for children or people that have a hard time hearing about death, as it is the main topic.Shipping on this was fast and everything showed up in one piece. Being a paperback, it didn’t show any signs of abuse or shipping damage.The story of this book, although specific to Rwanda, is a repeat of historical happenings in other areas, which have experienced “cleanings” for one reason or another. The author set out to try to document the happenings of the Rwandan genocide by interviewing a group of the killers, and survivors that would speak to him. The outcome is a very graphic account of what happened during that time. I think the author did an amazing job of compiling their accounts into a well organized book, that flows flawlessly. This book is a great reminder of the dangers of group thinking and cultural conditioning to hate another group.Overall I have, and will continue to, recommend this book to people. I could not be happier to have added this to my collection.

The honesty of the speakers is heartbreaking and gripping all at once. The respect for all shown by the author is admirable. If you need to be reminded just how fortunate you are to live where and with whom you live please read this account of a harrowing part of very recent History.

This book should be compulsory reading for everyone in the humanities and psychology fields

The educated people were certainly the ones who drove the farmers on, out in the marshes. Today they're the ones who juggle with the words or turn close-mouthed. Many sit quietly in their same places as before. Some have become ministers or bishops; they aren't much in the public eye, but they still wear their fancy clothes and fold framed glasses. While suffering keeps us in prison. Adalbert, a Hutu farmer turned killer in the 1994 Rwanda genocide.What a book. Its a book which is unlike any other, written from the point of view of a journalist with very few of his own deductions. I loved the whole outlay of the book as it just presented the facts from the killers point of views. There was little covering or philosophy behind the pure butchery of the whole exercise which sort of makes sense when you consider butchers dealing with meat, taking life every day and living without any remorse in their daily lives. The interviewed Hutu killers were like the butchers for three months of absolute carnage, egged on by the society and the leadership, they killed with systematic efficiency, over and over again. There seems to be no rational explanation of this absolute carnage. All you get is quiet contemplation and a warning to quell any hate filled rhetoric as quickly as possible, because any idea once popular is impossible to kill.