{{Rwandans from different walks of life have denounced the Human Rights Watch recent criticism of the country\u2019s Gacaca traditional courts terming the courts a massive success story that ought to be modeled across board.
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The report released on 31 May 2011 was titled \u201cJustice Compromised: The Legacy of Rwanda’s community-based Gacaca Courts.”<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Gacaca was conducted in our own traditional way regardless of the challenges it faced,\u201d said Emmy Arsonval Maniriho, a student at the National University of Rwanda.<\/p>\n
\u201cRwanda could not solve everything in a single day. The timing of HRW report is not appropriate as the government has promised to evaluate the Gacaca courts and review cases that did not go well,\u201d said Maniriho.<\/p>\n
A Remera resident, Steven Gatete said that the quoted cases were few in comparison to the over one million cases the traditional courts handled. \u201cThe 350 cases they quoted are a drop in the ocean,\u201d he emphasised, terming the report \u201cabusive and partial.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are content to continue talking ill about our country without any basis,\u201d Gatete lamented.<\/p>\n
Rukira Wa Muhizi, 45, a resident of Huye district and a former judge with the Gacaca in Rwaniro and Simbi sectors of the district, said that Gacaca was a role model since it had provided rapid justice to genocide victims and lent a hand to families to easily locate genocide victims and accord them decent burials.<\/p>\n
\u201cGacaca accorded everyone an equal platform and no one felt intimidated,\u201d Muhizi observed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did HRW ignore the justice rendered by the courts,\u201d he wondered. <\/p>\n
He noted that the Gacaca courts had brought together families and managed to identify Genocide suspects wherever they were hiding, which the human rights watchdog completely overlooked in their report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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