Gerald Gahima is a judge with the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of

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and a leading figure in the

Rwanda National Congress The Rwanda National Congress (RNC; ; ) is Rwandan opposition group in exile, established in the United States on 12 December 2010. Prominent founders included Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa, Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa, Gerald Gahima, and Patrick Karegeya. Kare ...

, a political group established in 2010 that represents the exiled opposition to the government of

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n President

Paul Kagame Paul Kagame ( ; born 23 October 1957) is a Rwandan politician and former military officer who has been the President of Rwanda since 2000. He was previously a commander of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a rebel armed force which invaded ...

. Beginning in 1996, he served as chief adviser in the Ministry of Justice. He later became Prosecutor General of Rwanda. Gahima has been in exile since falling out with Kagame, and was recently sentenced to 20 years in jail by a Rwandan court on charges that may have been politically motivated. He was a senior fellow at the

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from 2006-2007. He is the author of "Transitional Justice in Rwanda: Accountability for Atrocity" published by Routledge in 2013, in which he draws on his experience in Rwanda's justice system to assess the ICTR, national genocide trials, and gacaca.Gerald Gahima, Transitional Justice in Rwanda: Accountability for Atrocity, London: Routledge, 2013

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