John Rutayisire Talks about Gacaca
John Rutayisire is a Rwandan educator who has
taught in Uganda , Lesotho and Botswana. Rutayisire is currently the
Director of the National Curriculum Development Centre in Rwanda, where
he leads policy development in curriculum, textbooks, language in
Education, and most recently has been appointed Chairperson of the
Teacher Development and Management Policy. In this video clip, filmed
when he attended a Facing History Summer institute in 2004, Rutayisire
gives his assessment of the effectiveness of gacaca tribunals in Rwanda.
Transcript:
"I view gacaca as the renaissance of justice;
renaissance of the culture of Rwanda. Gacaca is a system that is
understood by all Rwandans: they know what it means, they know what it
has achieved in the past, and in spite of the problems related to human
resource, to capacity, gacaca is a system to me that is going to
work....There is nothing that is perfect in this world, but I give it a
lot of hope, and a lot of Rwandans give it a lot of hope that it's
going to work."
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Video length:
00 min 47 sec
Date filmed:
Jul 15 2004 
