Over the course of one hundred days in the spring of 1994, 800,000 people in a tiny African country of Rwanda were hatched to death by their machete-wielding neighbors. In the book Machete Season by Jean Hatzfeld, he had an astounding amount of conversations with the killers of the Rwandan Genocide. During the spring of 1994 in a tiny country called Rwanda, some 800,000 people were hatched to death one by one by their neighbors in a gruesome genocide. Several years later, journalist Jean Hatzfeld traveled to Rwanda to interview ten participants in the killings and listing extraordinary testaments from these men about the genocide they perpetrated. Haztfeld went in depth with the interviews of the ten men he interrogated. The author of the book, Jean Hatzfeld was an international reporter who wrote many other books including another in Rwanda. He was born in Madagascar in 1949 where his father was a teacher. After having many various jobs, Hatzfeld became a journalist for the French Daily Liberation in 1977. As a war reporter he traveled extensively, in 1994 he traveled to Rwanda to make a report on the massacre and the aftermath. Machete Season was chosen because last year in my world geography teacher Mrs. Macha showed us the movie Hotel Rwanda, and it caught my attention. The movie was so intriguing and it was sad to watch all the Tutsis being killed by the hutus for basically no reason. …show more content…
The movie was very detailed and well Another reason that the book was chosen was due to the fact that now we don’t have genocides in America, and the book informs us about what a genocide was and all the impact it had not only in Rwanda but in America as