Understand the event

The flash of the genocide did not allow for an organized resistance such as it was able to set up during the Second World War. Unprepared, disarmed and few in number, the Tutsi tried as best they could to resist against the aggressor.
The fighting techniques deployed by Tutsi civilian resistance fighters are limited to pastoral practices usually used to defend herds against thieves and wild animals. Ineffective against the military equipment of the army and militiamen, these techniques have had a limited range; isolation in a cache is often the only way to save.
At the same time, some Hutus, opposed to murders and the state’s racist doctrine, spontaneously hid, at the risk of their lives, neighbors, friends, and Tutsi relatives.