In two acclaimed previous works on the Rwandan genocide, journalist Jean Hatzfeld offered a profound, harrowing witness to the unimaginable pain and horror in the mass killings of the Tutsis by the Hutus. Into the Quick of Life, based mostly on interviews with the survivors, explored the Tutsi witnesses' courage in survival; in A Time for Machetes, Hatzfeld talked with Hutu killers about their relationship to the brutal acts they had committed. In The Strategy of Antelopes, he returns to Rwanda seven years later to talk with the people he'd come to know - Hutu killers who had been released from prison or returned from Congolese exile, and Tutsi survivors who are now asked to tolerate them as neighbours. How are they dealing with the process of reconciliation? In their hearts, is it possible? Winner of the prestigious Prix Medicis in France, Jean Hatzfeld's latest book provides unique insights into a genocide whose repercussions continue to unsettle the African continent.
The Strategy of Antelopes : Rwanda after the Genocide