Gacaca and the ICTR incomparable

The achievements by the soon to be concluded Gacaca semi-traditional courts cannot be compared to those of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). The argument is drawn from the assertion by Phil Clark, a scholar who said that Gacaca has performed better that the UN Court—to which we concur but only add that the two systems cannot be compared, by virtue of their contribution to the reconstruction of this country that was left devastated by the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. As far as we know, the farthest one can urge the case of comparing the two institutions is by the fact that they were both instituted to dispense justice by dealing with people who played a role in the genocide, and that is where it stops.