The ruling Hutu majority at the time was held responsible for organizing the call for mass murder of its fellow citizens, using radio stations to spread the word. Philip Gourevitch, a journalist [who reported on the genocide, wrote,] “the entire Hutu population was called upon to kill the entire Tutsi population.”
Hutus turned on their neighbors with machetes and knifes, and corpses by the thousands were dumped in rivers or left in mass graves.
This was probably the worst (or the best) example of how hatred be it ethnic, religious, cultural, geographical or even gender based, can easily destroy mankind.
It was horror after horror after horror for 3 months and 10 days as narrated by Romeo Dellaire, the then head of ill-fated peace keeping mission to Rwanda.
30 years ago Kakame then the rebel leader and his tutsi dominated RPF rebels shot down the plane carrying then then hutu Rwanda president killing him and the hutu Burundi president. Kakame triggered the genocide.
Rwanda is not yet healed. The worst thing is that the dictatorship government doesn’t allow space for people to ventilate and bring about real healing and justice. There’s still a possibility of violence erupting in future