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Monday 5 June 2017

[haguruka.com] Rwanda’s gacaca courts are hailed as a post-genocide success. The reality is more complicated. - The Washington Post

 

 In her new book, "Investing in Authoritarian Rule: Punishment and Patronage in Rwanda's Gacaca Courts for Genocide Crimes," Anuradha Chakravarty convincingly demonstrates that the RPF's post-genocide consolidation of power in Rwanda evolved based on the cooperation of individual Hutus, who constitute the vast majority of Rwanda's population and many of whom had committed genocide crimes. While the early RPF consolidation of power "depended on the use of blatant force through killings and arbitrary arrests," as time passed a system of mutual benefit developed between the RPF and the majority Hutu population it sought to rule. Writes Chakravarty:

In denouncing others, submitting self-incriminating confessions, and judging their friends and co-ethnics, thousands upon thousands of individual Hutu acted upon and enforced RPF rules, reinforcing the regime with their cooperation in exchange for reduced sentences, security guarantees, the possibility of private gains in the form of personal vengeance or economic windfalls, and opportunities to access public power and social prestige. The RPF unleashed a stream of individualized benefits and sanctions that made "opportunistic investors" of ordinary Hutu who backed RPF rule in their own interests.

Thus it was that through the strengthening of a form of patronage that provided Hutus with protection from problems and access to opportunities, it was Hutus themselves who built and reinforced the RPF's authoritarian rule, particularly through participation in and performance at the gacaca courts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/02/59162/?utm_term=.50f5887378f6#comments


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-“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.”

-“I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.

-“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

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