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Copyright © 2003 by Éditions du Seuil Translation copyright © 2005 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC Preface copyright © 2005 by Susan Sontag

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Originally published in 2003 by Éditions du Seuil, France,
as Une saison de machettes
Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First American edition, 2005

This book is published with the assistance of the French Ministry of Culture–National Book Center.

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Designed by Gretchen Achilles

 

 

eISBN 9781429923514

First eBook Edition : June 2011

 

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hatzfeld, Jean.

[Saison de machettes. English]

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

p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-0-374-28082-6 ISBN-10: 0-374-28082-7 (alk. paper)

1. Rwanda—History—Civil War, 1994–—Atrocities. 2. Rwanda—History—Civil War, 1994–—Personal narratives. 3. Tutsi (African people)—Crimes against—Rwanda—History—20th century. 4. Hutu (African people)—Rwanda. 5. Genocide—Rwanda—History—20th century. 6. Rwanda—Ethnic relations—History—20th century. I. Title.

DT450.435.H3914 2005

967.57104'31—dc22

2004061600