Peace beyond justice

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After the genocide, Rwanda faced the problem of truth and reconciliation. It's finally found a home-grown answer to their problem, the traditional Gacaca court. "Genocide is about wholesale slaught...

After the genocide, Rwanda faced the problem of truth and reconciliation. It's finally found a home-grown answer to their problem, the traditional Gacaca court. "Genocide is about wholesale slaughter and anarchy ... about killing, day after day." Over a million Rwandans died in the terrible Genocide that swept the country in 1994. With peace restored, the government faced the problem of truth and reconciliation. With hundreds of thousands implicated in the slaughter the justice system was in paralysis. But by 2005 Rwanda had found a home-grown answer to their problem, the traditional Gacaca court.

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