Many Tutsi and those Hutu associated with them fought to save their lives. We know of their heroic resistance, usually armed only with sticks and stones, at such places as the hills of Bisesero, the swamps of Bugesera, and the church at Cyahinda, but we have no way of knowing about the countless small encounters where targeted people struggled to defend themselves and their families in their homes, on dusty paths, and in the fields of sorghum.
Some tens of thousands fled to neighboring countries and others hid within Rwanda, in the ceilings of houses, in holes in the ground, in the forest, in the swamps. Some bought their lives once, others paid repeatedly for their safety over a period of weeks, either with money or with sexual services.
Many Tutsi who are alive survived because of the action of Hutu, whether a single act of courage from a stranger or the delivery of food and protection over many weeks by friends or family members.
The Rwandan genocide.
machetes were often used to beat and kill also burning houses down
During the Rwanda genocide in 1994, methods of killing included mass shootings, machete attacks, and bludgeoning. Armed militias, particularly the Interahamwe, conducted systematic killings, often targeting Tutsi civilians and moderate Hutus. Victims were frequently rounded up in large groups, and many were killed in public places, with brutal methods used to instill terror. The genocide resulted in the deaths of an estimated 800,000 people within a span of just 100 days.
The word 'genocide' itself does not need capitalization. When used to describe a genocide in particular, it can be capitalized: Rwandan Genocide.
While firearms were used during the Rwandan genocide, the primary weapons employed were actually machetes. These easily accessible tools were favored for their effectiveness in close combat and their availability among the population. The genocide, which occurred in 1994, resulted in the mass killing of Tutsi individuals and moderate Hutus, with machetes accounting for a significant portion of the violence. Other weapons, including grenades and clubs, were also utilized, but machetes were the most prominent.
In fact, very few of those murdered were shot. This was a situation where low-tech methods of killing were used; the most common weapon was the machete. They purchased thousands of machetes very cheaply from China. Another common weapon was a club studded with spikes/nails. Regardless of the "low-tech" nature of the genocide, it was incredibly lethal with a daily average of 10,000 dead.
The Holocaust, in which they (the Nazis) attempted to wipe out the Jews (an entire group of people)
Letting the people to walk around an area that had no water or food. That was a slow death. The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labor, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly and infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian desert.
Primarily starvation, deportation to gulags, and a shot to the back of the head in a prision was used. Brutall and efficent, this is typical of Stalin. This genocide is a major reason bettwen animosty bettwen Russia nad the Ukraine.
The word used is genocide. However, this word is also used to denote the killing of a substantial number of members of an ethnic group, forcible transfer, deliberate destruction of an ethnic group's culture.
A Genocide is the systematic killing of an entire people. The Nazi's used it against the Jews in concentration camps; they killed the entire race of Jews almost, using gas chambers, etc.
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