We are not executioners. We are judges.

One of the executioners crashed down with his rifle.

Scarcely seven minutes after the sentence was read out, had the executioners done their work.

Given a certain level of chaos and lawlessness, even those who are normally victims become executioners.

Who among us keeps watch from this strange watchtower to warn of the arrival of our new executioners?

Nor is there any evidence that any of the individuals died in a combat operation or that they resisted their executioners.

The core of serving officers, whose role was originally limited to that of mere executants and executioners, gradually seized control of the death squads for personal gain or to promote certain ideological or political objectives.

We are told that, in Rwanda, all those who live on the same hill know one another and, in many cases, the executioners operated openly and killed people in full view of everyone because they were convinced that they enjoyed impunity, which has become a tradition.