• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    The Rwanda genocide wasn’t carried out with guns as the primary weapon. It was machetes and fire.

    It was volumes of people, primarily. An oppressed underclass poisoned with fascist ideology who overwhelmed they’re wealthier tribal neighbors not unlike how the French ended up butchering their aristocracy at the end of the 18th century.

    Had the Tutsis been more heavily armed, they might have given as well as they took.

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      6 hours ago

      The genocide ended with the victory of the rebels led by Kagame. They were mostly Tutsis.

      The armed Tutsis did indeed hit back.