In 1990, the army began arming civilians with weapons such as machetes, and it began training the Hutu youth in combat, officially as a programme of "civil defence" against the RPF threat, but these weapons were later used to carry out the genocide.
Vojska je počela naoružavati civile oružjem, kao što su mačete iz 1990. godine, i obuku mladih Hutua u borbi, službeno kao program "civilne zaštite" u svezi prijetnji RPF, ali to je oružje kasnije korišteno u izvršenju genocida.