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.