Rwanda established village tribunals , known as the gacacas , to oversee cases . Gacacas courts were established to ease the burden on criminal court cases . The gacacas were originally formed to resolve minor disputes among villagers but were reinvented to hand out justice to the perpetrators of the genocide and help fast-track reconciliation efforts in the broken nation . The gacacas handled more than one million cases related to the 1994 genocide . The genocide in Rwanda left more people dead .
Rwanda established village tribunals , known as the gacacas , to oversee cases . Gacacas courts were established to ease the burden on criminal court cases . The gacacas handled more than one million cases related to the 1994 genocide . The genocide in Rwanda left more people dead .