The video above can be graphic at times because it shows people being beaten up in the streets. It will also show you people lying in the streets and other places that are dead from the Hutu's killing them. It shows you the amount of bones from the dead people that have been killed.
Methods used
Some tactics that were used were:
- rape
- propaganda
- machetes, grenades, or guns to kill people
Rape
An estimated 150,000 to 250,000 women were raped during the genocide. Rape was used as a means of stripping Tutsi women of their dignity and identity. It is clear that in addition to the widespread use of rape as a means of ethnic cleansing, sex violence was also meant to tear women because of their gender alone-in many cases, men said they had chosen "beautiful" women as a mean of proving their dominance. Rape in the Rwandan genocide was particularly sadistic at times. It was said that "Tutsi women were raped after they had witnessed the torture and killings of their relatives and the destruction and looting of their homes. According to witnesses, many women were killed immediately after being raped. Other women managed to survive, only to be told that they were being allowed to live so that they would 'die of sadness'". The public nature of the rapes-women were left splayed on public roads after rape, often with mutilated genitalia; the women were raped out in the open more often than in their homes.
And here are some more bodies.
Propaganda
Organized propaganda fueled murder and sex violence in Rwanda perhaps more than in any other conflict. The largely Hutu-controlled print media and radio broadcast hatred against Tutsi women, often through a use of cartoons that portrayed women as sex objects. In her book Supranational Criminal Prosecution of Sexual Violence, Netherlands-based criminal law expert Anne-Mariede Brouwer says that Tutsi women were shown to be "sexual weapons that would be used by the Tutsi to weaken and ultimately destroy the Hutu men." The media participated in a "structured attempt to use media to influence awareness, attitudes, or behavior." The intensive propaganda campaign fueled and funded by Hutu extremists successfully spread hate speech that would prove remarkably essential and effective before, during, and after the genocide.
A newspaper called Kangura was one of the most powerful voices of hate. Kangura described itself as "the voice that seeks to awake and guide the majority people." Kangura published a flurry of articles and cartoons vehemently disparaging Tutsi and advocating Hutu supremacy.
Radio, however, was the most important and influential medium through which the Rwandan population received information. In 1991,Rwanda had only one radio station, Radio Rwanda. Radio Rwanda was the voice of the government (the MRND) and of President Habyarimana himself. Radio Rwanda sometimes broadcasted false information, particularly on the progress of the civil war that preceded the genocide, but most people did not have access to independent sources of information with which to verify its claims.
A newspaper called Kangura was one of the most powerful voices of hate. Kangura described itself as "the voice that seeks to awake and guide the majority people." Kangura published a flurry of articles and cartoons vehemently disparaging Tutsi and advocating Hutu supremacy.
Radio, however, was the most important and influential medium through which the Rwandan population received information. In 1991,Rwanda had only one radio station, Radio Rwanda. Radio Rwanda was the voice of the government (the MRND) and of President Habyarimana himself. Radio Rwanda sometimes broadcasted false information, particularly on the progress of the civil war that preceded the genocide, but most people did not have access to independent sources of information with which to verify its claims.
In response, Hutu extremists created their own station. Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM), incorporated in April 1993. The purpose of the RTLM was "to prepare the people of the Rwanda for genocide."
This was the radio that was used to let Hutu people know what was going on.
The weapons
People were killed in the street by grenades, guns, and machetes. The killers were constantly incited to continue to kill, but 'No more corpses on the roads, please.' Corpses in the countryside were covered with banana leaves to screen them from aerial photography. Although on a large scale, this genocide was carried out entirely by hand, often using machetes and clubs. Local officials assisted in rounding up victims and making suitable places available for their slaughter. Tutsi men, women, and children and babies were killed in thousands of schools and even in churches. The victims, in their last moments alive, were also faced by another appalling fact:their cold-blooded killers were people they knew-neighbors, work-mates, former friends, and sometimes even relatives through marriage.
Here is a little Tutsi boy crying in the street.