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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Gacaca courts"”.
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A description of Gacaca courts : do they constitute a categroy of retributive or restorative justice?
… order to clarify and uncover the real nature of Gacaca courts which is a mixture of both with more elements of the retributive system. The dissertation also traces the origin of Gacaca courts through a historical background of Rwanda, a description of the Gacaca courts and their procedures, …
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Analysis of legal issues arising from the principle of concurrent domestic and international jurisdiction : application to the Rwandan context
… necessitates the existence of two types of Courts: a national court and an international one. As a result of the uniqueness of the Rwandan context, there were more courts hearing matters that arose from the genocide.6 In Rwanda, such cases are tried by ‘conventional courts’ and the ‘Gacaca’ …
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Respect of the right to a fair trial in indigenous African criminal justice systems : the case of Rwanda and South Africa
… a result, the law applied by the Western style courts is felt to be so out of touch with the needs of most African communities, and coercion to resort to them amounts to denial of justice. This explains why communities, especially in the rural Africa, resort to indigenous African justice systems …