The specificities of the genocide of the Tutsi

The immediate proximity, the intimacy between the genocidaires and the persecuted allows one to understand the typology of weapons used during the massacres. Reserved for the army or militarily trained militiamen, 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 both the determination and criminal inventiveness of the latter. Lowered to the level of cattle, the victims undergo the obvious will of the killers to increase the cruelty of the assassination by adding moral and physical suffering.