ANTH 322 Lecture 12: Week 6 Thomson Reading Notes.docx

• School: McGill University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 322
• Professor: Maria Sapignoli

Document Summary

They claim they are promoting: trust, truth telling and access to justice for all, yet the darker side of how the courts work in practice at the level of the everyday person is hidden from view. Government goal: to promote unity and reconciliation between tsutsi and hutu in creating one. Metaphor of gacaca trials as spectacle, play, cast: rwandans must perform certain roles Roles: (if do not perform according to the assigned script, they are subject to a variety of sanctions). Broader regime of near total state control of the process, power dynamics that influence. Rwandans who try to step outside the described roles of national unity and reconciliation risk imprisonment without charge, disappearance, intimidation and even death. Rwandans are constantly under strict monitoring of the ability and willingness of individuals to implement government orders effectively and efficiently compliance is paramount.