Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak

Hatzfeld interviewed a group of men imprisoned for their roles in the Rwandan genocide — ordinary farmers who killed their neighbours with farm tools during the hundred days. They speak about it without the affect of monsters. They were organised, they were cheerful, they looted, they ate well. The ordinariness is the point and the horror. Hannah Arendt's banality made local and agricultural and specific.