Author: Jean Hatzfeld
Translated by: Linda Coverdal
In the late 1990s, French author and journalist Jean Hatzfeld made several journeys into the hilly, marshy region of the Bugesera, one of the areas most devastated by the Rwandan genocide of April 1994, where an average of five out of six Tutsis were hacked to death with machetes and spears by their Hutu neighbors and militiamen.
In the villages of Nyamata and Ntarama, Hatzfeld interviewed 14 survivors of the genocide, from orphan teenage farmers to the local social worker.
