{"id":186,"date":"2011-05-13T11:05:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T11:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/karugarama-briefs-us-varsity-delegation-on\/"},"modified":"2011-05-13T11:51:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T11:51:31","slug":"karugarama-briefs-us-varsity-delegation-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/karugarama-briefs-us-varsity-delegation-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Karugarama briefs US varsity delegation on Rwandan justice system"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Minister of Justice, Tharcisse<\/span> Karugarama<\/span>, yesterday received in his office 15 students and three professors from the department of International Peace and Conflict Resolution of Arcadia University in Pennsylvania, the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

The delegation is in Rwanda on a week-long study tour to gain a deeper understanding of the country\u2019s conflict resolution management.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are here to find out how genocide survivors managed to reconcile with the genocide perpetrators, \u201cMinister Justice Tharcisse<\/span> Karugarama<\/span> told reporters.<\/p>\n

Karugarama<\/span> told the delegation that the country\u2019s judicial system during the pre-genocidal era was inept where to become a judge or prosecutor never required any academic qualification.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no fairness at all and to become a judge or prosecutor never required you to present your papers ; but through the will of the then President, he could appoint you (as judge or prosecutor) because he had full powers,\u201d he pointed out.<\/p>\n

Minister told the US delegation that Rwanda\u2019s justice system is today based on truth, equity, fairness and transparency, adding that the present government laid emphasis on training of judges and prosecutors to try the colossal backlog of genocide perpetrators in the country\u2019s prison facilities.<\/p>\n

The minister briefed the delegation on the Gacaca<\/span> courts system which had tried many perpetrators compared to the contemporary justice system which led to delays. He further attributed notable peace in the country to the unprecedented success of the Gacaca<\/span> which resolved 1.5 million Genocide-related cases.<\/p>\n

Karugarama<\/span> underlined that Rwandans today believe in forgiveness and tolerance where both perpetrators and survivors live in harmony.<\/p>\n

He allegorically underscored that though Rwanda has 1000 problems, it correspondingly has 1000 solutions.<\/p>\n

The delegation also nods in the agreement for the introduction of Gacaca<\/span> courts. I think how we are told, if that\u2019s how it works, it is then efficient,\u201d Connor Moriaty<\/span> a student part of the delegation noted.<\/p>\n

A member of the delegation and a student at the university Connor Moriaty<\/span> lauded the role of Gacaca<\/span> courts.<\/p>\n

\u201cBasing on the account given to us, the Gacaca<\/span> court system is efficient,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Minister of Justice, Tharcisse Karugarama, yesterday received in his office 15 students and three professors from the department of International Peace and Conflict Resolution of Arcadia University in Pennsylvania, the United States. The delegation is in Rwanda on a week-long study tour to gain a deeper understanding of the country\u2019s conflict resolution management. \u201cThey are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"byline":[278],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","byline-joram-muhoozi"],"bylines":[{"id":278,"name":"Joram Muhoozi","slug":"joram-muhoozi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":278,"name":"Joram Muhoozi","slug":"joram-muhoozi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}