Abstract
My reflections on the limits of legal responses in Rwanda stem from both academic and lived experience. I served as Rwanda’s Deputy Minister of Justice (1996–1999), Prosecutor General (1999–2003), and Deputy Chief Justice (2003–2004) during the period after the genocide. In those roles, I had access to a large volume of information drawn from policy- making roles, case files of members of my staff, as well as my own fieldwork relating to the suffering of victims of the genocide. While I obviously believe that justice for those crimes is not in vain, my work with survivors left me with an acute sense of the inadequacy of legal responses to mass atrocity
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116
Last Page
127
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.18.2.2018
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Gahima, Gerald Dr
(2024)
"If Only Justice Could Heal or Make Whole: Hard Lessons from Rwanda’s Legal Responses to Genocide and Mass Atrocity,"
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal:
Vol. 18:
Iss.
2:
116–127.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.18.2.2018
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol18/iss2/10
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