Word: gacaca
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...Ryan, the gacaca system represents a completely different approach to justice than the Western method, but one that better fits the situation...
Many are in favor of the gacaca system, hoping it will deliver more lenient sentences. Judges may hand down a maximum sentence of life in prison, but may not issue the death penalty...
...gacaca hearings, suspects have no lawyer, and the judges—ordinary citizens elected by the community—will have received scant legal training. These shortcomings created considerable controversy, which delayed their implementation until now, eight years after the massacres...
However otherwise flawed, the gacaca system is completely indigenous. It also has the advantage of great speed—all of the trials may only take five years, by optimistic estimates...
...this way, he hopes the gacaca solution will have resonance with other war-ravaged countries...