AFP
20/05/11
KIGALI — Rwanda's Gacaca grassroots courts that have judged the bulk of the people suspected of taking part in the 1994 genocide will close in December, the country's justice minister said Friday.
"A final report will be completed by December and this chapter of Gacaca will be officially declared closed," Tharcisse Karugarama said in a statement.
Based on the age-old concept of a traditional village council, the Gacaca courts were created in 2001 in a bid to clear a crippling backlog of genocide-related cases in the national courts system.
"Through Gacaca we have been able to judge and resolve up to 1.4 million dossiers," the minister said –"a great achievement that would have been impossible otherwise."