Transcripts of Tragedy and Truths: An Analysis of Rwanda's Genocide Trial Documents.
One of the most significant aspects of Rwanda's recovery from the 1994 genocide has been the gacaca court system, which was established to handle the overwhelming number of genocide-related trials and to arrive at the truth of what happened. Unfortunately, a large gap exists in scholarly understandi...
| Publicado en: | Atlantic Journal of Communication Vol. 23; no. 5; pp. 284 - 298 |
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Nov-Dec2015
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