The machetes are the tools they use for cutting in maize and banana plantations. Rwandans grow up with a machete. These tools proved adequate to "cut" the Tutsi.

Author's considerations

Through the answers of the killers, Hatzfeld reveals what genocide is and how it differs from war. Genocide is a state institution, a concerted project of extermination. A genocide is distinguished from war by the absence of fighting. The killings take place only in one direction.

The anti-Tutsi sentiment that had dominated Rwanda for

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