Word: rwanda
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When he traveled to Rwanda, Ryan was deeply shaken to learn that there was “still evidence of [genocide] everywhere...
...first thought was, ‘This country is too small, too poor to try all these people,’” Ryan said. “It would be a staggering job in [the United States], and it’s out of the question in Rwanda...
...earlier this month, in accordance with much of the advice outlined in a memo written by Ryan in 1995, Rwanda did away with the orthodox trial system. In its place, it has reinstituted the gacaca ( pronounced ga-CHA-cha), an ancient tribal custom—literally “justice on the grass” in Kinyarwandan, Rwanda’s most spoken language...
...Holocaust, Cambodia and Rwanda have all caused us to rethink the laws of war,” Ryan said. “My whole course is about trying to get beyond their very obvious dissimilarities...
...Every year, I pass out that memo, as what I would suggest for Rwanda,” Ryan said. “Now I can say, that’s what they are actually doing...