When Evil Strikes Roots – Death in the Accounts of the
Main Characters of Jean Hatzfeld’s Reportages Cover Image

Gdy zło zapuszcza korzenie – śmierć w relacjach bohaterów reportaży Jeana Hatzfelda
When Evil Strikes Roots – Death in the Accounts of the Main Characters of Jean Hatzfeld’s Reportages

Author(s): Anna Pomiankowska-Gabara
Subject(s): Cultural history, Communication studies, Sociology, Social history
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: death; evil; reportages; genocide; Rwanda

Summary/Abstract: In death all people are equal – death will affect every individual, regardless of age, gender or social status. Nobody will escape from it. However, sometimes it happens that death is not a natural course of life, but it is a meticulously prepared plan of extermination of one ethnic group by another one. Jean Hatzfeld dedicated four reportages to the Rwanda genocide; they include reports of the genocide victims and their torturers. That evil, which affected more than one million victims, hasset its stamp on Rwandans. Death is omnipresent in their memories and it is visible that there is no way to free themselves from it.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 49-60
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish