Based on autobiographical testimonies written after the genocide against the Tutsi of Rwanda by both survivors and perpetrators, whom the French journalist Jean Hatzfeld interviewed in Rilima prison about their crimes, this article attempts to interpret the silencing of the victims in the context of their progressive animalization. For the victims, silence in hiding was practically the only hope of escaping the henchmen. Conversely, the latter pursued the goal of following the self-perpetuating nature of the genocide and making a kind of silenced testimony possible with the extermination of the entire minority: No one should be able to provide information about what had happened. The reasons for the killings became practically obsolete. An extreme groundlessness emerged in which the proximity between the persecuted and the wildlife surrounding them was interpreted as proof that the Tutsi had given their “consent” to the “hunts” and saw themselves as “worthy of extermination”.