August 9, 2002

Rwanda's Search for Justice

By HENK ROSSOUW

A university helps the country recover from genocide

Pascal Ntahobavukira, a clerk in an old brown suit, walks to the top of the hill to see this village's mayor. Milling around a prison at the summit are 400 prisoners, accused of taking part in the 1994 genocide in this country. The mayor is waiting inside his office near the prison: His shirt collar obscures the machete scars around his neck.

The Tutsi mayor and the Hutu clerk meet to discuss gacaca, pronounced ga-CHA-CHA,

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