Punishment v compensation
“By using this community form of justice, Rwanda has been experimenting with a system that no other country has been prepared to do.
Phil Clark is a young Australian academic who has followed the gacaca process closely. "In trying to do justice on such a scale, Rwanda hasn’t been able to deliver exactly the form of justice that a lot of genocide survivors would like.” It’s tended to use community service or compensation as punishment. But in a country where most people are very poor, that can be very complicated.
Josephine lost more than 60 relatives in the genocide…Gacaca: what do the survivors think?
Rwanda has focused on community service or compensation as punishment, but many genocide survivors wanted more than that. They would have liked harsher sentences for the perpetrators - more people being publicly shamed and put back in jail…