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Like any other genocide, everyone tried to deny the fact that it was a genocide. Instead they stated that it was a simple civil war in Rwanda. During the Rwandan genocide, the U.S. State Department’s lawyers infamously directed U.S. diplomats to avoid use of the word genocide. Only “acts of genocide” were being committed, they said. Even after it had become indisputable that what was going on in Rwanda was a genocide, American officials had shunned the g-word, fearing that it would cause demands for intervention. After the 100 day genocide, about 2 million Hutus fled to neighboring countries to avoid punishment.

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When the signal was given, the Interahamwe and other Hutus conducted a deliberate, coordinated attack on the Tutsis and Hutu moderates. The targets were systematically attacked over a period of about 100 days before the genocide was stopped. Millions of lives were lost, both Tutsi and Hutu. Tutsi and people suspected of being Tutsi were killed in their homes and as they tried to flee at roadblocks set up across the country during the genocide. Entire families were killed at a time. Women were systematically and brutally raped. It is estimated that some 200,000 people participated in the perpetration of the Rwandan genocide. It was considered extermination as Tutsis weren't considered as human.

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In January 1994, Human Rights Watch report on Rwanda observed the country was being flooded with weapons. These were so readily available that anyone could exchange two beers for a grenade. The report claimed the weapons were imported from France, Egypt and South Africa. As the Hutu's held power during the genocide, the government served an active role in supplying the weapons. According to a secret government document, more than 2000 assault rifles were distributed to civilians in disguise for self-defense. However the most common weapon of the Rwandan genocide was the machete, assault rifles were used to coral Tutsi into confined areas.

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The MNRD and Interahamwe used all forms of media available to spread the Hutu power ideology. The message was clear: the Hutus were better than the Tutsis. When the President’s plane crashed, propaganda and media were used effectively and efficiently to blame the Tutsi’s. The Tutsis were scapegoats. Through the use of propaganda and constant political maneuvering, Habyarimana, who was the president at the time, and his group increased divisions between Hutu and Tutsi by the end of 1992.

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Organization of the genocide started the day the genocide started. This started with the assassination of President Habyarimana. Although it has not been determined who was responsible for the assassination, the Hutus used this as a way to blame the Tutsis, take over the government, and start the killings. All citizens of Rwanda had an identity card, so Hutus could find out which people were identified as Tutsi and where they lived, so they could organize attacks against them. Identity cards came about in Rwanda when the Belgians took control of Rwanda before the genocide. In 1933, the Belgians solidified the categories of Rwandans by mandating that every person was to have an identity card that labeled them either Tutsi, Hutu, or Twa. During the genocide, the Hutus used these identity cards to organize attacks on specific Tutsis.

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Dehumanization was a critical aspect in making the Rwandan genocide function. By dehumanizing the Hutus to animals, vermin, or disease, it made it easier to kill them, because they were considered as a pestilence that had to be eradicated. The Hutus were thinking of the Tutsis as animals or even entities, making it easier to kill them without any remorse or compassion. This dehumanization stage gives an ideological justification to the Hutus, who believe they are trying to purify society. The Hutus do not feel any remorse or compassion because if the Tutsis are animals or vermin, killing them is not murder. If dehumanization had not happened in the Rwandan genocide, there may have been more moderate Hutus and fewer radical Hutus. By dehumanizing the Tutsis, the Hutus caused them to become socially dead.

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People of Rwanda give names or other symbols to the classifications. Hutus were known as 'oppressed farmers,” “the true rulers of Rwanda,” and “the pure people.”Tutsis were referred to as the “Tall trees” and, most famously, “Cockroaches.”

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In just 100 days in 1994, some 800,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda by ethnic Hutu extremists. They were targeting members of the minority.

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Culture of Rwanda have differentiated them in to two category: Hutu's and Tutsi's. The Catholic church could have played this role in Rwanda, had it not been riven by the same ethnic cleavages as Rwandan society.