Word: gahima
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RWANDA Detainees Freed The first 2,000 prisoners were released under a decree by President Paul Kagame that will free up to 40,000 detainees, including thousands of genocide suspects, in order to ease overcrowding in the country's jails. Attorney General Gerard Gahima said that the decree did not apply to ringleaders of the 1994 genocide - in which an estimated 800,000 people, most of them minority ethnic Tutsis, were slaughtered in a campaign by extremists from the Hutu majority. Those freed would still be tried by community courts. Survivors criticized the move, saying suspects might intimidate witnesses...
...Ryan believes that the promotion to attorney general of Gerald Gahima, his co-author for the memo, is what definitively led to its transformation into...
...Gahima was from the start opposed to the other major proposed solution—importing judges and lawyers from abroad...