Rwanda: Gacaca trials begin

The International Justice Tribune reports that nearly three years after the official launch of the gacaca, the community courts which were created to prosecute the majority of Rwanda's genocide suspects, the first trials opened on 10 March. Out of the approximately 10,000 local courts, less than 800 have reached the trial stage so far. In January, Domitila Mukantangazwa, executive secretary of the national gacaca service, said that "over a million persons are expected to be tried by the gacaca courts".