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A powerful report on the aftereffects of the genocide in Rwandaand on the near impossibility of reconciliation between survivors and killers In two acclaimed previous works, the noted French journalist Jean Hatzfeld offered a profound, harrowing witness to the unimaginable pain and horror in the mass killings of one group of people by another. Combining his own analysis of the events with interviews from both the Hutu killers who carried out acts of unimaginable depravity and the Tutsi survivors who somehow managed to escape, in one, based mostly on interviews with Tutsi survivors, he explored in unprecedented depth the witnesses understanding of the psychology of evil and their courage in survival in the second, he probed further, in talks with a group of Hutu killers about their acts of unimaginable depravity.