Why didn the Tutsi people fight back in Rwanda?
The question WHY is often asked not only you ask why people have not defended themselves. There was a psychologist who was a prisoner in Theresienstadt concentration camp who wrote a play about a couple sitting at home and two police officers come and ….what would you have done if two police officers or military men came with guns to question you? Even if you were 4-6 or 8 people? You would obied wouldn’t you? You can’t ask why because until you do not experience such a horror you have no clue. Still I looked up for you some explanations: Although on a large scale, this genocide was carried out entirely by hand, often using machetes and clubs. The men who’d been trained to massacre were members of civilian death squads, the Interahamwe (‘those who fight together’). Transport and fuel supplies were laid on for the Interahamwe – even remote areas were catered for. Where the killers encountered opposition, the Army backed them up with manpower and weapons. The State provided Hutu Power’
