The genocide was like a festival

"It became a pleasure to kill. The first time, it's to please the government. After that, I developed a taste for it. I hunted and caught and killed with real enthusiasm. It was work, but work that I enjoyed. It wasn't like working for the government. It was like doing your own true job -like working for myself." He said, "I was very, very excited when I killed. I remember each killing. Yes, I worked every morning excited to go into the bush. It was the hunt -the human hunt." And he said, "The genocide was like a festival. At day's end, or any time there was an occasion, we took a cow from the Tutsis, and slaughtered it and grilled it and drank beer. There were no limits anymore. It was a festival. We celebrated."

Philip Gourevitch, The New Yorker, The Life After.