gacaca

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With them we attended a gacaca, a traditional court that adjudicates crimes committed during the Rwandan genocide, to support a colleague in testifying against a former neighbour who had murdered her husband.

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  • Her brother's killer confessed to the murder during gacaca - the traditional court process for genocide suspects - and brought her to his burial spot. —  Nicholas D. Kristof
  • Before gacaca judges from his sector, he had been sentenced to 19 years in prison in first instance, then to 30 years in appeal. —  AllAfrica News: Latest
  • Inspired by Rwandan tradition, the gacaca courts, which the judges are designated from among the community, are charged with trying alleged authors of the 1994 genocide which resulted, according to the UN, in nearly 800 000 killed, primarily Tutsis. —  AllAfrica News: Latest
  • The title is a reference to the informal community courts, gacaca, that have developed in Rwanda. —  GreenCine Daily
  • Roughly translated, gacaca means "justice on the grass." —  GreenCine Daily
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