Rwanda 'gacaca' genocide courts finish work

Rwanda's community courts, known as gacaca, have finished their work, after 10 years of trying those accused of involvement in the 1994 genocide.

The courts were set up to speed up the prosecution of hundreds of thousands of genocide suspects awaiting trial. Human rights group say the gacaca fell well short of international legal standards.

About 65 percent of the close to two million people tried have been found guilty, according to latest government figures. Rwanda's legal system was left in ruins after the massacres by ethnic Hutu militia and soldiers of some 800,000 minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus in 100 days between April and June 1994.

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