The Gacaca courts (Kinyarwanda: [ɡɑ.t͡ʃɑ̌ː.t͡ʃɑ]) were a system of transitional justice in Rwanda following the 1994 genocide. The term 'gacaca' can be...
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Rwandan genocide (section Gacaca courts)
the Gacaca Court system. On 18 June 2012, the Gacaca court system was officially closed after facing criticism. It is estimated that the Gacaca court system...
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making it difficult to prosecute members of the Interahamwe. But the Gacaca court was put in place to at least attempt to get the killers in jail. It has...
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with the court overturning convictions on certain counts. On 14 December 2009, RTLM announcer Valérie Bemeriki was convicted by a gacaca court in Rwanda...
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through seizing Tutsi property, and the like, were put on trial in gacaca courts. Today, the ICTR has indicted over ninety-three people for genocide...
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thousands of Hutu were imprisoned pending the establishment of the Gacaca courts. Millions of Hutu fled as refugees, contributing to large refugee camps...
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The NURC also recommends (among others): haste in the establishment of Gacaca court jurisdictions, development programmes, a Compensation Fund, and legislature...
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website. Intended Consequences (2008). By Jonathan Torgovnik on MediaStorm Gacaca Film Series (2002–2009) Official site for the documentary film series that...
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Théoneste Bagosora (category Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by international courts and tribunals)
Court Joseph Kavaruganda, and three major opposition leaders, Faustin Rucogoza, Frederic Nzamurambaho, and Landoald Ndasingwa. In addition, the court...
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projects record and substantiate survivor testimony and recording the Gacaca court process. The Memorial has had hundreds of thousands of visitors. The...
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Gacaca, Living Together Again In Rwanda? is the first documentary film in a trilogy by Anne Aghion examining the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide. Directed...
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returning genocidaires would face justice, most probably through the gacaca court system. It was stated that if all of the FDLR commanders, who are believed...
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Records and Archives Database Archived 31 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine Gacaca Archives Genocide Archive of Rwanda Do I still have a life? : voices from...
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flowers at the remains of the school dormitory before attending a nearby Gacaca court to recount her experiences in the genocide. Idris Elba as Captain Augustin...
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International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (category United Nations courts and tribunals)
French courts because French citizens were also killed in the plane crash. The majority of genocide cases were handled by the so-called gacaca courts, a modernized...
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Adelman and Astri Suhrke (eds). London: Transaction Publishers. Supreme Court of Canada – Decisions – Mugesera v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and...
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Enos Kagaba (section Arrest and Gacaca courts)
original on September 23, 2008. Retrieved September 25, 2008. "Karongi Gacaca court hands life sentence to Kagaba". October 7, 2011. "Inmates grateful as...
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Court President, Vice President, and 12 judges. Established in 2001, the Gacaca Court was established by the National Unity Government to try cases of genocide...
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genocide in which up to 1,000,000 people died. On 3 December 2003 a Rwandan court in Rukira, Kibungo found 18 people guilty of genocide crimes. Gitera Rwamuhizi...
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complicity in several murders and sentenced to life imprisonment by a Gacaca court in 2009. Bemeriki has acknowledged her role in the genocide and begged...
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the stability of a region seriously compromised." In May 2006, the Paris Court of Appeal accepted six courtsuits deposed by victims of the genocide to...
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Professor of International Politics at the SOAS University of London. The Gacaca Courts, Post-Genocide Justice and Reconciliation: Justice without Lawyers (2010)...
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the socio-political environment for the mass criminalisation of Hutu. Gacaca courts eventually tried more than a million (Nyseth Brehm, Uggen, and Gasanabo...
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Pauline Nyiramasuhuko (category Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by international courts and tribunals)
charges. Although other women have been convicted of genocide by Rwandan courts, Nyiramasuhuko is the first woman to be convicted by the ICTR. Her son was...
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