1. When the killers go home: Local justice in Rwanda
- Author
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Clark, Phil
- Subjects
Rwanda -- Social aspects ,Rwanda -- Political aspects ,Hutu (African people) -- Crimes against ,Hutu (African people) -- Social aspects ,Tutsi (African people) -- Crimes against ,Tutsi (African people) -- Social aspects ,Genocide -- Cases ,Social justice ,Company legal issue ,Political science - Abstract
The 1994 genocide in Rwanda, when nearly one million Tutsi and moderate Hutu were macheted to death, caused the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) to round up nearly 120,000 Hutu suspects and pile them into prisons built to hold only 40,000 detainees. To help process an enormous backlog of cases the government announced that it would provisionally release selected suspects who had already confessed to their crimes to the same community where they committed their crimes.
- Published
- 2005