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    Posted on June 18th, 2012

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    Views on gacaca on the event of the courts’ conclusion

    Views on gacaca on the event of the courts’ conclusion

    According to the Executive Secretary of the National Jurisdiction for Gacaca Courts Domitille Mukantaganzwa, Gacaca has been a huge success. However, Mukantaganzwa said there were still outstanding issues related to compensation and recovery of genocide survivors’ property which she said would be dealt with by a special committee to be established.

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    Posted on June 18th, 2012

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    More views on gacaca

    More views on gacaca

    On the day the gacaca courts are to end, The New Times features two stories on gacaca and its positive impact on Rwandan society. One describes praise about gacaca from the UN; the other from international legal experts.

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    Posted on June 17th, 2012

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    Survivors’ concerns over closure of gacaca courts need to be addressed

    Survivors’ concerns over closure of gacaca courts need to be addressed

    Many survivors in Rwanda fear that with the official closure of the gacaca courts on 18 June 2012, their right to reparation will be ignored forever, according to human rights organisations Survivors Fund (SURF) and REDRESS. Research and interviews with genocide survivors conducted by SURF and REDRESS over the last five years indicate that many survivors feel that justice has not been served, as the process has not included adequate reparation.

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    Posted on May 16th, 2012

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    Submissions on concerns regarding the termination of gacaca

    Submissions on concerns regarding the termination of gacaca

    Survivors Fund, in partnership with Redress and IBUKA, has been working on developing submissions on draft and current legislation that impacts on the rights of survivors. At present, the Rwanda Parliament is debating a new law on the termination of gacaca courts, which is planned for 18th June. As a final decision on this draft law is pending, it is the focus of their first submission.

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    Posted on May 14th, 2012

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    Grassroots Justice in Rwanda

    Grassroots Justice in Rwanda

    In “How Rwanda judged its genocide,” the latest publication in Africa Research Institute’s Counterpoints series, Dr Phil Clark scrutinises the gacaca community courts set up to prosecute crimes committed during the 1994 genocide. In his view, gacaca enabled Rwandans to talk about the genocide, and its impact, on their own terms, in a language that is familiar to them.

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    Posted on April 23rd, 2012

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    “While gacaca brought justice, reconciliation is long-term process”

    “While gacaca brought justice, reconciliation is long-term process”

    In an attempt to achieve both justice and reconciliation, gacaca courts were put in place. It brought survivors and perpetrators of the genocide together and served as a kind of collective therapy, where one side confessed their wrongdoings and asked for forgiveness, while the other was able to find the remains of their loved ones, bury them with dignity and experience closure.

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    Posted on April 22nd, 2012

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    Marie Mukabatsinda, Hutu genocide survivor, describes her views on gacaca

    Marie Mukabatsinda, Hutu genocide survivor, describes her views on gacaca

    Marie discusses her views on gacaca, the local courts in Rwanda. Marie participated in gacaca both as a judge and as a witness to testify against the individuals who murdered her family and the men who raped her. Her story is featured in “The Men Who Killed Me”.

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    Posted on April 12th, 2012

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    Reconnecting with the survivors featured in “The Men Who Killed Me”

    Reconnecting with the survivors featured in “The Men Who Killed Me”

    Gacaca courts in Rwanda: 18 years after the genocide, is there justice and reconciliation for survivors of sexual violence? In January 2012, several years after we first met the courageous women and man featured in “The Men Who Killed Me”, we re-interviewed fifteen of those survivors of sexual violence to learn how their lives had unfolded since the book’s publication.

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    Posted on April 11th, 2012

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    Edwin Musoni: The legacy of gacaca

    Edwin Musoni: The legacy of gacaca

    Edwin Musoni of Rwanda’s The New Times reports on gacaca courts, which an official has recently indicated have tried as many as 1,951,388 genocide suspects over the last decade. The gacaca courts are scheduled to officially conclude on June 18, 2012.

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    Posted on April 7th, 2012

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    Commemorating 18 years after the Rwandan genocide

    Commemorating 18 years after the Rwandan genocide

    18 years after the Rwandan genocide, we wish to commemorate all victims of the genocide and call for more support for survivors of sexual violence. In support of our call, we have written a 3-part series on the blog IntLawGrrls “Gacaca courts in Rwanda: 18 years after the genocide, is there justice and reconciliation for survivors of sexual violence?”.

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