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Rwandans seek local justice
By: aljazeeraenglish
Posted: Apr 7 09
Witnessed: 1164 times
Regions: Rwanda
Issues: Genocide, Justice, War crimes
Tags: gacaca, international criminal tribunal for rwanda, International Justice, Mass Killings, restorative justice, truth and reconciliation, tutsi
Rwandans have been struggling to put the pieces of their lives together 15 years after the gencoide that killed at least one million people, most of them were ethnic Tutsis.
The UN set up an International Criminal Tribunal to prosecute those behind the genocide, but it's been heavily criticised for being expensive and ineffective
Yvonne Ndege reports from Murama in central Rwanda. (07 April 2009)
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