ANTH 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Gacaca Court, International Criminal Court
17 Mar 2016
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The gacaca is a post-genocide trial in which people are brought informally before their communiies and their guilt judged based on personal tesimony. Moivated by the desire for reconciliaion and jusice in a country struggling to rebuild ater a brutal genocide, which had to deal with 100,000 people in prison. Your lawyer, prosecutor and judge will be your neighbour . Because the formal court system had broken down, higher ranking perpetrators of the genocide were sent to an internaional criminal court in tanzania, while lower ranking criminals were judged by the gacaca. Strong emphasis on truth as a remedy for healing. Survivor trauma is one of the major obstacles facing the new state, and one which must be dealt with to rebuild the state. To some extent, one"s confession results in one"s freedom. Those proven to be less guilty are sentenced to a few hours of community service a week towards rebuilding the country.
