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Gacaca courts - ©Elisa Finocchiaro por Elisa Finocchiaro

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Refugee camp - ©Elisa Finocchiaro por Elisa Finocchiaro

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Rwanda: How to deal with a million genocide suspects

Twenty-one years ago – on April 7, 1994 – the genocide that would kill up to one million people in Rwanda began. Another million individuals would be implicated as perpetrators, leaving Rwandans and many others to ask: how does a country begin to bring so many suspects to justice?

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Gacaca Court Archives - Kingali, Rwanda

Following the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 the Gacaca Courts were responsible for providing some form of justice to the victims. Over the span of 10 years the courts tried over 1.9 million cases related to the genocide. The cases were comprised of nearly 60 million documents, 169,000 judges, and held in 12,000 separate court houses. The Gacaca Courts was officially closed in 2012, however its legacy will go down in history.

A plan for the construction of a world-class archive to house the Gacaca Courts collection of documents and files, and the Genocide Archive of Rwanda, was enacted in January of this year. Upon completion the archive will make the genocide against the Tutsi one of the most comprehensively documented and most readily searchable genocides of all time. The archive is set to be built on the grounds of the Kigali Genocide Memorial, ensuring the tragedy endured by the Tutsi of Rwanda will never be forgotten

For more information on the Gacaca Courts click here

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1-2-Read #Gacaca courts #Rwanda #NewInternationalist How will they be remembered? http://t.co/MEknMrgn -- Olivia U. Rutazibwa (@o_rutazibwa)

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1-2-Read #Gacaca courts #Rwanda #NewInternationalist How will they be remembered? http://t.co/MEknMrgn -- Olivia U. Rutazibwa (@o_rutazibwa)

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More than 300 Rwandan Hutus flee into Burundi from southern Rwanda

AFP reports more than 300 Rwandan Hutus flee into Burundi from southern Rwanda Several hundred Rwandans have fled from the south of the country into neighbouring Burundi, Burundian local officials said Wednesday. "More than 300 Rwandan Hutus have fled the southern province and have taken refuge in Bugabira and Ntega in Kirundo province," said a local official who asked not to be named. "These people keep arriving every day in small groups and they are staying with local people," the same source told AFP. Kirundo Governor Juvenal Muvunyi confirmed the news. "These Rwandan Hutus say they are fleeing Rwanda because they are afraid... They say that at night people are abducted from the hills where they live then are killed and thrown into the Kanyaru river" on the Rwanda-Burundi border, he said. "For their part the Rwandan authorities say these people are fleeing the gacaca courts," he added. From http://kigaliwire.com || Read more http://bit.ly/V7VfO