Understanding the event

The brilliance of genocide did not allow an organized resistance such as it could be put in place during the Second World War. Unprepared, disarmed and few in number, the Tutsi tried as best they could to resist against the aggressor.
The combat techniques deployed by the 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 salvation.
At the same time, some Hutu, opposed to killings and the racist doctrine of the state, spontaneously hid, at the risk of their lives, neighbors, friends, and Tutsi relatives.