For a decade until , 12, gacaca courts met once a week in villages across the country , often outdoors in a marketplace or under a tree, trying more than 1. Their aim was to achieve truth, justice and reconciliation among Rwandans as "gacaca" means to sit down and discuss an issue.
President Kagame has been hailed for transforming the tiny, devastated country he took over through policies which encouraged rapid economic growth. He has also tried to turn Rwanda into a technological hub and is very active on Twitter. But his critics say he does not tolerate dissent and several opponents have met unexplained deaths, both in the country and abroad. The genocide is obviously still a hugely sensitive issue in Rwanda, and it is illegal to talk about ethnicity. The government says this is to prevent hate speech and more bloodshed but some say it prevents true reconciliation.
Charges of stirring up ethnic hatred have been levelled against some of Mr Kagame's critics, which they say is a way of sidelining them. He won a third term in office in the most recent election in with All photographs belong to the copyright holders as marked. A good man in Rwanda. The photographs that reunited families. Africa Today podcasts. News in Kinyarwanda. Image source, AFP. How did the genocide start?
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Between April and July , an estimated , Rwandans were killed in the space of days. Rwanda's mystery that won't go away. How was the genocide carried out? Why was it so vicious? Did anyone try to stop it? French forces in Rwanda were accused of not doing enough to stop the killing. How did it end? What happened in DR Congo? Eastern DR Congo has suffered decades of unrest as a consequence of Rwanda's genocide.
An exact figure is contested; see Meierhenrich, J. Journal of Genocide Research. Straus and Giroux, New York. Pietermaritzburg, Cluster. Survival Against the Odds, p Violence performed. New York, Palgrave and Macmillan.
United Nations. Country presentation by the government of Rwanda. Third United Nations conference on the least developed countries, Brussels. From Classroom to Conflict in Rwanda. On September 2, , the ICTR delivered the first conviction for genocide by an international court. It ruled that Jean-Paul Akayesu was guilty of inciting and leading acts of violence against Tutsi civilians in the town where he served as mayor.
This judgment was also the first by an international court to define rape as a crime in international law and to recognize rape as a means of committing genocide. In another landmark case, the ICTR convicted a newspaper publisher and a radio station owner of the crime of incitement to genocide a third defendant was found guilty as well, but was acquitted on appeal.
It was the first time since the Nuremberg trial of the major German war criminals that an international court examined the responsibility of the media for mass atrocities. In all, the ICTR indicted 93 persons and convicted 62 for crimes in connection with the genocide. Those prosecuted included high-level military and government officials, politicians and businessmen, and religious, media, and militia leaders.
Within Rwanda, the national courts tried more than 10, persons for planning the genocide or committing atrocities. In , the government also implemented the traditional community court system known as gacaca pronounced ga-CHA-cha.
These courts heard the cases of the additional hundreds of thousands of Rwandans accused of participating in the genocide. In communities throughout the country, locally elected judges heard victims and witnesses testify.
The judges also gave the defendants the opportunity to confess and ask for forgiveness. The gacaca courts tried more than 1. We would like to thank Crown Family Philanthropies and the Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation for supporting the ongoing work to create content and resources for the Holocaust Encyclopedia.
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