gacacan.

Brit.

/ɡəˈtʃɑːtʃɑː/, U.S.

/ɡəˈtʃɑˌtʃɑ/

Forms: 1900s– gacaca, 1900s– gachacha.

Origin: A borrowing from Rwanda. Etymon: Rwanda gacaáca.

Etymology: < Rwanda gacaáca, denoting a place where people meet to reconcile neighbours < ga-, dissimilated variant of ka-, aka-, diminutive class prefix + -caáca (collective singular umucaáca) denoting the kind of grass often covering such meeting places.

In Rwanda: a system of social justice, based on traditional methods of conflict resolution, whereby community-elected judges try those accused of crimes committed during the genocide of 1994.

1979 Universal Human Rights 1 66 An informal palaver or (in Rwanda) gachacha, where members or elders of the community would gather together and informally question those with knowledge of the dispute.

1999 Afr. Affairs 98 359 A group of Rwandan scholars, based in Butare and following similar lines of thought, is convinced that the erosion of customary institutions, such as gacaca, is a crucial element of any explanation of the genocide.

2000 J. M. Janzen & R. K. Janzen Do I still have Life? vi. 220/1 Although a popular palaver court (the gacaca), is described for Rwanda..it is mainly used for local civil crimes of property and fights between kin in the community.

2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 25 June a6/1 The so-called gacaca courts are faced with trying some of the 100,000 defendants charged in the massacre of an estimated 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu. Most defendants tried by gacacas so far have been set free or sentenced to community work.

2009 New Yorker 4 May 39/2 ‘I..spent eleven years in prison, then I confessed everything in gacaca’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	gacaca
释义	gacacan. Brit. /ɡəˈtʃɑːtʃɑː/, U.S. /ɡəˈtʃɑˌtʃɑ/ Forms: 1900s– gacaca, 1900s– gachacha. Origin: A borrowing from Rwanda. Etymon: Rwanda gacaáca. Etymology: < Rwanda gacaáca, denoting a place where people meet to reconcile neighbours < ga-, dissimilated variant of ka-, aka-, diminutive class prefix + -caáca (collective singular umucaáca) denoting the kind of grass often covering such meeting places. In Rwanda: a system of social justice, based on traditional methods of conflict resolution, whereby community-elected judges try those accused of crimes committed during the genocide of 1994. Π 1979 Universal Human Rights 1 66 An informal palaver or (in Rwanda) gachacha, where members or elders of the community would gather together and informally question those with knowledge of the dispute. 1999 Afr. Affairs 98 359 A group of Rwandan scholars, based in Butare and following similar lines of thought, is convinced that the erosion of customary institutions, such as gacaca, is a crucial element of any explanation of the genocide. 2000 J. M. Janzen & R. K. Janzen Do I still have Life? vi. 220/1 Although a popular palaver court (the gacaca), is described for Rwanda..it is mainly used for local civil crimes of property and fights between kin in the community. 2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 25 June a6/1 The so-called gacaca courts are faced with trying some of the 100,000 defendants charged in the massacre of an estimated 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu. Most defendants tried by gacacas so far have been set free or sentenced to community work. 2009 New Yorker 4 May 39/2 ‘I..spent eleven years in prison, then I confessed everything in gacaca’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1979
随便看	θ163952 θ163953 θ163954 θ163955 θ163956 θ163957 θ163958 θ163959 θ16396 θ163960 θ163961 θ163962 θ163963 θ163964 θ163965 θ163966 θ163967 θ163968 θ163969 θ16397 θ163970 θ163971 θ163972 θ163973 θ163974