Apologizing is not easy, so people tend to do it only part way,insincerely, or not at all. And by doing that people miss out on a key opportunity to recover a relationship. For a 100-day period that started mid-july 1994 an estimated 500,000-1,000,000 rwandans were killed. constituting as many as 70% of the Tutsi population The genocide and widespread slaughter of Tutsi. The Hutus and the Tutsi were the same race, but different ethnicity group. Rwanda was owned by Belgium after World War 2. Belgium introduced identify cards to separate two groups of people. Hutus and Tutsi. After the genocide the government introduced the gacaca courts. The gacaca courts were a community justice system that was made to rebuild and place justice in the hands
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Reconciliation was something so hard for the Tutsi specifically. “Portraits of reconciliation”, by Susan dominus from The New York Times Magazine show a picture of a Hutu perpetrator and a Tutsi victim standing side by side in peace. Below that are statements of both perpetrator and victim. The perpetrator(Jean Pierre Karenzi) says he was unease with himself and very ashamed of himself. After he was “trained about unity and reconciliation” he went over to the house of the victim(Viviane Nyiramana) he shook her hand and asked for forgiveness and now they are in good terms. This information shows how the perpetrator(Jean Pierre Karenzi) was trained about unity and reconciliation by the gacaca courts, then he apologized to the victim, he whose father and three brothers he killed(doc.8). “As We Forgive” by Catherine Claire Larson a writer from Michigan wrote about the meetings on doc 5 and specifically about Saveri(perpetrator) and Rosaria(victim). For three meetings straight savari begged for forgiveness from Rosaria but Rosaria was confused on why he was so desperate for forgiveness. Savari then gathered the strength to tell Rosaria he was the one who murdered her sister and her children. Rosaria said “Your crime was against God, who created the people you killed”Doc.5). Saveri built a home for Rosaria which is the home he is proudest of. This shows how effective the gacaca courts were when it came to reconciliation and recovery because
Reconciliation was something so hard for the Tutsi specifically. “Portraits of reconciliation”, by Susan dominus from The New York Times Magazine show a picture of a Hutu perpetrator and a Tutsi victim standing side by side in peace. Below that are statements of both perpetrator and victim. The perpetrator(Jean Pierre Karenzi) says he was unease with himself and very ashamed of himself. After he was “trained about unity and reconciliation” he went over to the house of the victim(Viviane Nyiramana) he shook her hand and asked for forgiveness and now they are in good terms. This information shows how the perpetrator(Jean Pierre Karenzi) was trained about unity and reconciliation by the gacaca courts, then he apologized to the victim, he whose father and three brothers he killed(doc.8). “As We Forgive” by Catherine Claire Larson a writer from Michigan wrote about the meetings on doc 5 and specifically about Saveri(perpetrator) and Rosaria(victim). For three meetings straight savari begged for forgiveness from Rosaria but Rosaria was confused on why he was so desperate for forgiveness. Savari then gathered the strength to tell Rosaria he was the one who murdered her sister and her children. Rosaria said “Your crime was against God, who created the people you killed”Doc.5). Saveri built a home for Rosaria which is the home he is proudest of. This shows how effective the gacaca courts were when it came to reconciliation and recovery because