ABSTRACT
Born in Madagascar in 1949, the novelist and former war correspondent Jean Hatzfeld has produced a third remarkable book— La Stratégie des antilopes (2007)—focused on the genocide of the Tutsis, in Rwanda, between early April and late June, 1994. The first two volumes of the trilogy, already translated as Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak and Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak, elucidate how some 800,000 Tutsis were killed in this short period and how their murderers from the rival ethnic group, the Hutus, carried out their methodical macabre plans. In his attempt to comprehend this genocide, Hatzfeld has forged no less than a new kind of French engagé writing.
