This is the dancing ceremony that greeted us at Rutanda, outside Kigali. The dancers are in the TIG program, which translates from the French as “Workers in the General Interest.” They were, for the most part, arrested after the genocide for killing over 1 million people. Rwanda can’t use its courts to prosecute them. There are over 100,000 “perpetrators,” an impossible task especially when you remember that most of the lawyers, judges and court personnel also perished in 1994.
Sop Rwanda is using the gacaca courts, based on a local level mediation system, to prosecute them. If they are found guilty, they serve half their sentence in prison and half in the TIG program, doing public service in the communities where they killed. These convicts are building agricultural terraces in the Gasabo district, which includes half of the capital city, Kigali.
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