Word: gacaca
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...earlier this month, in accordance with much of the advice outlined in a memo written by Ryan in 1995, Rwanda did away with the orthodox trial system. In its place, it has reinstituted the gacaca ( pronounced ga-CHA-cha), an ancient tribal custom—literally “justice on the grass” in Kinyarwandan, Rwanda’s most spoken language...
When Ryan first heard of gacaca from a Rwandan member of his committee, he quickly grasped that though it had “nothing to do with the law,” it had “everything to do with justice...
...absence of a formal judiciary, the 85,000 accused perpetrators are being tried under the auspices of Gacaca, a state-organized system of popular courts for trying genocide criminals...