The specificities of the genocide of the Tutsi

The immediate proximity and intimacy between the genocidaires and the persecuted allows us to understand the typology of weapons used during the massacres. Reserved for the army or militiamen militarily trained, firearms are far from being the only weapons used. The weapons of death are mainly part of everyday life and relate to a rural society, based on agriculture, hunting and livestock.
The variety of instruments of death, corollary to the multitude of killers, reflects as much the determination as the criminal inventiveness of the latter. Lowered to the level of cattle, the victims suffer from the obvious desire of the killers to increase the cruelty of the assassination by adding moral and physical suffering.