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Chapter xviI

“Innocence can be subjective”:  justice

The genocide trials
“Buying innocence”
The “big fish”
Gacaca
The prisoners’ gacaca: “the real truth is in the prisons”
The paralysis of the justice system
Acquitted and still in prison
Prisoners’ views on justice
Justice for RPF and RPA crimes

Chapter xviiI

“The heaviest sentence”:  prisoners sentenced to death

The 1998 executions
Life under sentence of death
The abolition of the death penalty

Chapter xIx

Where the guilty are kings:  confessions

Propaganda, pressure and enticements
The decision to confess
“False confessions”
“Real confessions”
“The innocent”
Double standards

Chapter xx

Freedom:  a mirage

The programme of releases
Returning inside
The ingando: “touching freedom”

Chapter xxI

Freedom:  the reality

The moment of release
The process of readjustment
Support for released prisoners
Prison friendships

Chapter xxiI

“I am still in that space now”

Postscript

2007

Appendices

Map of Rwanda
Methodology
Glossary of terms and acronyms
Further reading

Acknowledgements

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