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Gacaca is a traditional adjudication mechanism at the umudugudu ( village ) level, whereby members of the community elect elders to serve as judges, and the entire community is present for the case.
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Gacaca and is
Gacaca is expected to conclude in December 2008.
Gacaca takes place once a week in the morning in every village across Rwanda, and is compulsory.
The Gacaca court is part of a system of community justice inspired by tradition and established in 2001 in Rwanda, in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, when between 800, 000 and 1, 000, 000 Rwandans, mostly Tutsi, were slaughtered.
The Gacaca court is thus a system of grassroots legal bodies inspired by traditional power structures.
Since only 5 % of the 120, 000 imprisoned suspects had been tried as of 2005, the government is hoping the Gacaca courts can both find the guilty and provide reconciliation for those accused.
These are then organized into 3 parts: a general assembly, which collects facts and establishes the lists of victims and perpetrators, among other things ; the Bureau of the Gacaca jurisdiction, which is made of 19 members elected by the General Assembly ; and the co-ordination committee, which is designed to coordinate the Gacaca Court's activities.
* Confession after accusation and name put on the list made by the Cell's Gacaca Courts — 12 to 15 years imprisonment, half of it is spent in prison, the other is commuted to works of public interest ;
* Confession before accusation and name put on the list made by the Cell's Gacaca Court — 7 to 12 years imprisonment, half of it is spent in prison, the other is commuted to works of public interest ;
* Confession before name being put on the list made by the Cell's Gacaca Court — 1 to 3 years imprisonment, half of the sentence is served in prison and the rest is commuted to works of public interest ;
Gacaca may not be ideal but there is at this point no alternative ....
The official explanation I think is that people did not speak openly until the Gacaca process and now many more accusations are surfacing.
Gacaca and traditional
A traditional local justice system called Gacaca predominated in much of the region as an institution for resolving conflict, rendering justice and reconciliation.
In response, Rwanda implemented the Gacaca court system, which has evolved from traditional cultural communal law enforcement procedures.
Gacaca and at
Hutu Rwandan genocidal leaders are on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, in the Rwandan National Court system, and, most recently, through the informal Gacaca programme.
Recent reports highlight a number of reprisal killings of survivors for giving evidence at Gacaca.
* Gacaca Film Series Official site for the documentary film series that includes " My Neighbor My Killer " ( Official Selection at Cannes Film Festival ), " Gacaca Living Together in Rwanda?
Gacaca and village
Originally, the Gacaca settled village or familial disputes.
Gacaca and community
The Supreme Court Rwanda has been endowed with a 6th court called " Gacaca Courts Department " in order to co-ordinate and supervise the activities of the various courts without having to interfere with the decisions that they will have to make in order to keep the national as well as the international community informed about the evolution of the Gacaca Courts ' activities.
Gacaca and elect
In keeping with tradition, villagers elect nine representatives for each Gacaca court to be the judges known as " people of integrity.
Gacaca and serve
The judges now qualified as Inyangamugayo, who also have basic judicial training, are among 250, 000 individuals elected by Rwandans to serve in the Gacaca courts, which are in charge of judging two ( of the three ) categories of people accused of implication in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.
Gacaca and for
In relation to genocide, the Gacaca process provides a basis for settlement ; the system emphasizes the importance of accord, condemns the guilty, and promotes collaboration between those deciding as well as among the spectators.
There are three levels of jurisdiction for the Gacaca Courts: the Cell's Gacaca Courts, the Sector's Gacaca Court, and the Sector's Gacaca Courts for Appeal.
Gacaca and .
These Gacaca trials are overseen by the government established National Unity and Reconciliation Commission.
In 2001, the government began implementing a participatory justice system, known as Gacaca, in order to address the enormous backlog of cases.
The Gacaca courts are a method of transitional justice, designed to promote healing and moving on from the crisis.
Rwanda has especially focused on criminal prosecutions in the Gacaca courts, putting justice partially into the hands of the victims.
Since 2002, Gacaca Courts Department was replaced by the National Service of Gacaca Courts so as to coordinate the Gacaca Courts activities and speed up this process.
There are 8, 140 Gacaca courts located throughout the country.
The name Gacaca originates from Rwanda's national language, Kinyarwanda, which, translated roughly into English means short, clean cut grass or " umucaca.
The Gacaca courts are meant to provide smaller courts to relieve the burden of the larger courts.
is and traditional
William Styron, while facing the changing economy with a certain uneasy reluctance, insists he is not to be classified as a Southern writer and yet includes traditional Southern concepts in everything he publishes.
One reason is, of course, that the new scepticism has been willing to maintain the general picture of the invasions as portrayed in the traditional sources.
If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.
Rexroth is a longtime jazz buff, a name-dropper of jazz heroes, and a student of traditional as well as modern jazz.
Through all this raving, Krim is performing a traditional and by now boring rite, the attack on intelligence, upon the largely successful attempt of the magazines he castigates to liberate American writing from local color and other varieties of romantic corn.
Certainly, it is the traditional clarity of his music which has endeared him to the Western World -- not his experimentations.
The paper has a certain value as a comparatively easy introduction to this approach, particularly since it treats a fairly simple and straightforward phenomenon where it is possible to compare it with a more traditional ( though not structural ) statement.
What is left to traditional systems of philosophy is, in effect, only the history of these fields prior to their becoming rigorous enough to abide by the canons of scientific method.
This explanation is attractive, but is vitiated at least in part by the observation that Cynewulf, though he used kennings in the traditional manner, was a literate man who four times inscribed his name by runes into his works.
A traditional Lao explanation is that the moon was being swallowed by a toad, and the remedy was to make all possible noise, ideally with firearms.
And the rebellion of these third generation Jews is not the traditional conflict of culture but, rather, a protest against a culture that they view as softly and insidiously enveloping.
This conclusion is dependent on the assumption that traditional sex mores will continue to sanction both premarital chastity as the `` ideal '', and the double standard holding females primarily responsible for preserving the ideal.
Gov. Vandiver is expected to make the traditional visit to both chambers as they work toward adjournment.
`` This is a long picture and a controversial one, but basically it is a moral, enthralling and heartbreaking description of humans who have become unlinked from life as perhaps Rome has from her traditional political, cultural and religious glories ''.
If Bultmann's own definition of myth is strictly adhered to ( and it is interesting that this is almost never done by those who make such pronouncements ), the evidence is overwhelming that he does not at all exaggerate the extent to which the mythological concepts of traditional theology have become incredible and irrelevant.
However, even if the latent demand for demythologization is not nearly as widespread as we are claiming, at least among the cultured elements of the population there tends to be an almost complete indifference to the church and its traditional message of sin and grace.
With traditional nationalistic spirit, some Englishmen claim that English Catholicism is Catholicism at its best.
The truth is that any revival of traditional and indigenous religion will serve to promote that sense of identity and Volksgeist which these young nations very much need.
The traditional story about his departure reports that he was disappointed with the direction the academy took after control passed to Plato's nephew Speusippus upon his death, although it is possible that he feared anti-Macedonian sentiments and left before Plato had died.
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