1. Legal and Political Systems in Rwanda
The separation based on ethnicity is ultimately a provoking factor that lead to the violence that escalated in Rwanda between the Hutus and the Tutsis, where the Tutsis were favored incredibly. ... He helped to incite and provoke the ethnicity based violence, promoting Hutu extremism until it eventually escalated into the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, where 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered between April and July that year. ... It is based on three pillars of Belgian Civil Law, Traditional Law (in the Gacaca Courts) and is attempting to move towards common law in an attempt to modernize. ... These ...
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