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Saturday, March 04, 2006

Machete Season 

Over the last few years, I have been obsessively reading up on the Rwandan genocide, so I was surprised to see Tyler Cowen point to a book that I had not even heard of: Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak. Tyler also excerpts a haunting passage from the book.
During that killing season we rose earlier than usual to eat lots of meat, and we went up to the soccer field at around nine or ten o'clock. The leaders would grumble about latecomers, and we would go off on the attack. Rule number one was to kill. There was no rule number two. It was an organization without complications.
Obviously, if any of you have read this book, pleave leave a comment and let us know what you think.