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Washington (CNN) -- The Supreme Court granted a temporary stay of execution late Wednesday for a condemned Texas inmate who is requesting DNA testing of evidence in his case.

The order was handed down less than an hour before Henry "Hank" Skinner, 47, was scheduled to be executed by injection for the New Year's Eve 1993 killings of his live-in girlfriend and her two sons.

The Supreme Court granted the temporary stay while it considers whether to take up Skinner's broader appeal. It was not immediately clear when the court might consider the case, but there was no indication a decision would be made before Thursday.

Skinner's attorneys maintain that DNA testing of the evidence could establish his innocence and determine the real killer.

"This action suggests that the court believes there are important issues that require closer examination," defense attorney Robert Owen said of the temporary stay. "We remain hopeful that the court will agree to hear Mr. Skinner's case and ultimately allow him the chance to prove his innocence through DNA testing."

Skinner heard the news while he was eating what was to be his last meal, according to Michelle Lyons, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

He expressed relief and surprise, saying, "I had made up my mind I was going to die" and "I feel like I really won today," according to Lyons.

Skinner said he is "eager to get the DNA testing so I can prove my innocence and get the hell out of here," according to Lyons.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has received more than 8,000 letters from Skinner's advocates urging a stay, according to the Innocence Project and Change.org, whose members and supporters have sent the letters through their Web sites.

State Sen. Rodney Ellis and state Rep. Elliott Naishtat were among those who have called for a reprieve.

"It has come to my attention that there are numerous problems with Mr. Skinner's case that raise serious questions regarding the fairness of his trial and whether or not he is guilty," Ellis wrote in a letter to Perry on Tuesday.

Word about the case has spread as far as France, where demonstrations were planned Wednesday at the U.S. Embassy in Paris by supporters of Skinner's French wife, Sandrine Ageorges.

Since Skinner's conviction in 1995, he "has tirelessly pursued access to the untested physical evidence," according to court documents filed with the Supreme Court in February.

That evidence includes vaginal swabs and fingernail clippings from Skinner's then-girlfriend Twila Busby, hairs found in her hand and two knives found at the scene, along with a dish towel and a windbreaker jacket, according to the filing.

Skinner has never denied being in the home when Busby and her sons -- Elwin Caler, 22, and Randy Busby, 20, -- were killed. However, he maintains he was incapacitated because of the "extreme quantities of alcohol and codeine" that he had consumed earlier that evening, according to the documents.

Prosecutors maintain forensic evidence gathered at the scene and witness statements point to Skinner. A female friend of Skinner's who lived four blocks away testified at Skinner's trial that he walked to her trailer and told her that he may have kicked Twila Busby to death, although evidence did not show she had been kicked. The neighbor has since recanted parts of her testimony.

Authorities followed a blood trail from the crime scene to the female friend's trailer and found Skinner in the closet, authorities said. He was "wearing heavily blood-stained jeans and socks and bearing a gash on the palm of his right hand," according to the Texas attorney general's summary of the case.

In addition, authorities said cuts on Skinner's hand came from the knife used to stab the men. Skinner said he cut it on glass. Some DNA testing was done, which implicated Skinner, but not on the items he now wants tested.

"DNA testing showed that blood on the shirt Skinner was wearing at the time of his arrest was Twila's blood, and blood on Skinner's jeans was a mixture of blood from Elwin and Twila," authorities said.

However, Owen wrote in the Supreme Court filing, "the victims' injuries show that whoever murdered them must have possessed considerable strength, balance and coordination."

Twila Busby was strangled so forcefully that her larynx and the hyoid bone in her throat were broken. She then was struck with an axe or pick handle 14 times, hard enough to drive fragments of her "unusually thick skull" into her brain, the court documents said.

"While attacking Ms. Busby, the perpetrator had to contend with the presence of her 6-foot-6-inch, 225-pound son, Elwin Caler, who blood spatter analysis showed was in the immediate vicinity of his mother as she was being beaten," the court filing said.

"Somehow, the murderer was able to change weapons and stab Caler several times before he could fend off the attack or flee." Randy Busby was then stabbed to death in the bedroom the two brothers shared, the documents said.

Evidence presented at trial suggested that Twila Busby's uncle, Robert Donnell -- who is now dead -- could have been the killer. At a New Year's Eve party she attended for a short time on the last night of her life, Donnell stalked her, making crude sexual remarks, according to trial testimony. A friend who drove her home from the party testified she was "fidgety and worried" and that Donnell was no longer at the party when he returned.

"The defense presented evidence that Donnell was a hot-tempered ex-con who had sexually molested a girl, grabbed a pregnant woman by the throat and kept a knife in his car," according to Owen's letter to Perry.

An expert testified at trial that Skinner would have been too intoxicated to commit the crimes, and a review of the evidence suggests that Skinner might have been even more intoxicated than initially thought, Owen writes.

Media outlets in Texas have been supportive of a reprieve for Skinner.

"Before sending a man to die, we need to be absolutely sure of his guilt," the Houston Chronicle wrote in an editorial Friday.

Skinner's wife, Ageorges, told Radio France Internationale in a Tuesday interview that she began writing to Skinner in 1996 and they began visiting in 2000.

"I'm convinced of his innocence not because I love him and he's my husband, I'm convinced of his innocence ... [because] there is scientific forensic evidence to prove that he was not even in a state to stand up at the time of the crime let alone murder three people that he loved," Ageorges told CNN's "Larry King Live" on Wednesday night after the stay had been granted. "There is absolutely no motive."

Ageorges also said she finds it "mind-boggling that evidence preserved from the crime scene 15 years later -- including the murder weapon, a rape kit, nail clippings from one of the victims, a male jacket that doesn't fit his size at all with sweat, hair, DNA -- to this day is not tested."

Recently, questions have swirled in Texas regarding the 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham for a fire that killed his three daughters.

On March 19, Perry issued a posthumous pardon to the family of Timothy Cole, who was serving a 25-year sentence for aggravated sexual assault when he died in prison from an asthma attack. After his death, DNA tests established his innocence, and another man confessed to the crime.

CNN's William Mears, Ashley Hayes and Emily Probst contributed to this report.

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question: who issued the stay of execution?

answer: Supreme Court

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question: what could establish innocence?

answer: DNA testing of the evidence

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(CNN) -- A broad band of severe thunderstorms Sunday sparked heavy rain and hail and prompted tornado warnings from Florida to Virginia, with multiple twisters reported in North Carolina, according to the National Weather Service.

At least eight unconfirmed tornadoes were spotted along North Carolina's I-85 corridor between Charlotte and Greensboro, with overturned mobile homes, toppled trees and downed power lines left by the storms, the weather service said.

"It's been a very active evening for most of central North Carolina," said Julia Jarema, spokeswoman for North Carolina Emergency Management.

The storms caused scattered power outages throughout the state, but because of the multiple bands of storms "things are changing so rapidly we haven't been able to confirm numbers," Jarema said.

Video showed a portion of metal roofing was ripped off an industrial building in Belmont, North Carolina, west of Charlotte, littering nearby trees with clumps of yellow insulation.

Multiple mobile homes were overturned in Linwood, North Carolina, outside of Lexington, and at least three people were reported injured, said CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras.

A video posted on YouTube purportedly showed flashes of snapping power lines as a huge funnel cloud loomed over High Point, North Carolina, near Greensboro. At least 20 homes were reported damaged in the area, the weather service said.

High Point emergency management officials were going house to house checking for possible injuries, according to a fire department spokeswoman.

News14: Tornado touches down in Charlotte

Local law enforcement reported another tornado north of Greensboro, North Carolina, the weather service said.

The storm was also producing 70 mph winds and hail as large as baseball or tennis-ball size, Jeras reported.

"As daylight comes we'll know really more about what kind of damage we are facing," Jarema said.

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Washington (CNN) -- Justice Antonin Scalia is a conservative in thought, but not in personality. A new biography of the colorful Supreme Court jurist paints a complete picture of his enormous ongoing influence on the law and society.

"American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia" (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) offers the first comprehensive look at the first Italian-American on the high court, and the rhetorical battles he has waged on the court and off.

CNN spoke with Joan Biskupic, the book's author, who also is a reporter for USA Today. Biskupic has covered the high court for two decades, holds a law degree from Georgetown University and has also written a biography of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

CNN: Justice Scalia has a certain public image in the minds of many Americans. You've known him for years and interviewed him several times for this book. Is he the same in private?

Biskupic: He's a lot more of himself in private. He actually is very confrontational behind the scenes, just as he is in public. He's very defiant. But he also can be quite funny, quite casual, generous and decent. His best friend on the bench is Justice [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg [a low-key, liberal justice but, like Scalia, a native New Yorker who loves opera]. He's many things. He's very consistent on the law, but he's a lot of things in terms of his personality.

CNN: He has told me that one of the happiest times in his career was in the executive branch, where he said that's where the action was, instead of serving on the bench.

Biskupic: Remember what it was like working in the [Department of Justice's] Office of Legal Counsel in the post-Watergate era [in the Nixon and Ford administrations]. It was an exciting job for him, there was a lot of tension, and conflicts with the legislative branch. He really thrived on that. At a time when many Republican lawyers were trying to get out of the Nixon administration, as Watergate was moving to a climax, he was trying to move up and be promoted. He sparred with Democratic lawmakers, and was trying to exert executive privilege claims, when that was a dirty word in the wake of Watergate.

CNN: Growing up, you describe "Nino" -- as his friends and family call him -- as something of a golden child.

Biskupic: I'd always known he was an only child, who, interestingly, later went on to have nine children, but I didn't know he was the only offspring of his generation from two immigrant Italian families. For his parents and his aunts and uncles, he was the center of their universe, but it put a burden on him to perform, to be this special child. I found the conflicts in terms of being a product of two different families continue to reveal himself. The father was quite cerebral, was a professor, always had his nose in a book, he didn't abide any kind of silliness. And his mother's side was much more flamboyant. You had these contrasting families, and, as I write in the book, he learned to deal with conflict and tension early on in his life, and went on to readily generate it as an adult.

CNN: Many conservatives worship Scalia, and yet you suggest his influence has not had as far-reaching an effect inside the high court as many believe it to be. How do his colleagues view him?

Biskupic: I talked to his colleagues about where he's at. Justice [John Paul] Stevens says he is committed -- some of his impact made a huge difference, some of it unfortunate. Stevens, the senior liberal, has dueled with Justice Scalia dozens of times, from Bush v. Gore [the 2000 presidential election dispute] to recent dilemmas testing the Guantanamo detainees. Justice Ginsburg, his closest friend on the court, sees his influence beyond the marble walls, and that's the way I've been mostly viewing him until the recent terms. He is influential with conservative acolytes. Within the court, he certainly alienated [now-retired Justice Sandra Day] O'Connor, Justice [Harry] Blackmun, and in some ways Justice [Anthony] Kennedy. It made his influence rather slight for years -- he really didn't want to deal, to negotiate with his colleagues in rulings. Despite a charming personality in many ways, he told me he had nothing to trade. He was just plain firm about where he wanted to go, and he wouldn't settle for half a loaf.

The addition of Chief Justice [John] Roberts and Justice [Samuel] Alito on the bench allowed him to win more. And in recent terms, there has a been a culmination, a resurgence, on what he is able to do, now with the [conservative] bodies coming on the court to support him. But he told me he was still not satisfied. "The wins," he told me, "Damn few."

CNN: In his bright, bold opinions, what is he trying to accomplish? Does he reach for broader audience?

Biskupic: Look at 1996's Romer v. Evans -- the gay rights case. He lost on that one, and his dissent was written for consumption way beyond the court. It was a complete battle cry. He lashes out at the court for placing what he said was "the prestige of this institution behind the proposition that opposition to homosexuality is as reprehensible as racial or religious bias." This dissent became more of a story than the opinion itself. People were reading it and giving it airspace, and that's what he wanted. That was his style of most of the '90s: Get as much attention as possible, because he was in dissent so much in big cases.

Now, in the recent Heller case case [where Scalia wrote the main opinion striking down Washington, D.C.'s, strict handgun ban], he was not going able to write an opinion as boldly as he may have wanted, in terms of some of the zingers that he packs into his other opinions, because he has to keep his majority. But he still will not mince words if he is in dissent, because he knows journalists, law students, policy makers will all pay attention, and it will influence people down the road.

CNN: And yet controversy seems to dog him, including the duck hunting trip he took with Vice President [Dick] Cheney at a time the high court was considering an appeal from Cheney's office; and a hand gesture Scalia made outside a Catholic church some interpreted as obscene.

Biskupic: I don't think he cares. He's got these intense feelings he's not going to keep in check.

CNN: What prompted this project, and what do you want readers to know about Justice Scalia?

Biskupic: I found most of what was written about him was either one side or the other -- screeds easily from the left and embraces easily from the right. And I thought there was so much to his background that was worth revealing in an objective way, to see what he was all about: How Scalia became Scalia. He was really part of the conservative moment we saw in the 1980s. Young lawyers at the time like John Roberts and Samuel Alito embraced his theories, and look where they ended up.

CNN: In your interviews with him and his family, did you expect that level of cooperation?

Biskupic: No, I didn't. In the beginning, he said he would encourage colleagues to talk to me, but he didn't want to sit and talk on the record. But he soon became quite intrigued at my research into his family, immigration records and such. And I'd be at my desk, and he'd be calling me, asking me what I found out about his ancestors. So those later, extensive interviews made this book.

CNN: There is a challenge about writing on the often cloistered world of the Supreme Court, these personalities that remain below the radar for most people.

Biskupic: I wanted a book that would demystify him, and make people understand him. I wanted readers to know: This is your court, you should know about these people and what they're up to. But it is tough, it's so hard to get information about the institution that doesn't have to do with the precise words on the rulings. And it's fun to dig up this background, and get in with these justices and talk with them one-on-one. I was so grateful to speak with Justices Stevens, Ginsburg and even Justice [Clarence] Thomas, who all shared great stories and offered their insights into Justice Scalia.

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British surgeon amputated the arm of a wounded teenager in Congo, Africa, with help from instructions sent to him by text message.

British surgeon David Nott, center, with two colleagues in a Congo field hospital where he carried out the operation.

David Nott texted his surgical colleague Meirion Thomas, who is one of only a handful of UK surgeons familiar with the difficult procedure of removing the collar bone and shoulder blade.

David Nott realized that teenager J, whose arms had been ripped off and who was now gangrenous, had only a few days to live.

"I knew that the only way to save this boy's life was to do a forequarter amputation, and I knew that Professor Meirion Thomas was really the expert," Nott said.

Nott, a vascular surgeon at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, who volunteers one month a year with humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders, had never performed such an operation. Watch an interview with Nott Â»

Thomas replied almost immediately with 10 steps Nott should follow to carry out the procedure and then signed off with "Easy! Good luck."

David Nott followed his colleague's instructions step by step: "I felt I had like my guardian angel on my left shoulder showing me what to do. I just got on with it, and everything he told me, I just did".

Nott and his team embarked on the three-hour operation with just one pint of donated blood.

Teenager J is said to have made a full recovery while Nott stayed to keep an eye on his wounds.

Thomas said, "All I did was tell David the 10 steps, and I knew that he would follow them."

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(CNN) -- For Morris Murenzi, a visit to his native Rwanda always includes attending a gacaca court -- a local tribunal of villagers set up to try suspects in a 1994 genocide that killed 800,000.

The gacaca courts, as seen here in 2003, are inspired by old village tribunals used to settle disputes.

At the proceedings, he sits with his countrymen. Some tearfully confront their attackers and testify against them, their scars from the genocide still visible. Others -- like him -- quietly listen, their emotional scars invisible. They wait and hope for answers about how their relatives died as a nine-member panel questions suspects.

"Some of the witnesses who ask questions are disfigured, others are disabled," said the Dallas, Texas, resident whose last gacaca trial was in Kigali two years ago. "The attackers have no place to hide. They are forced to address what they have done to the victims."

Murenzi is one of thousands of people who attend gacaca courts all across Rwanda on any given day. Hearings are held in open fields in neighborhoods where the attacks occurred. There are no lawyers and no judges in robes. A panel of local villagers with no legal experience conducts the proceedings.

"For me, gacacas help me find closure and healing," Murenzi said. "I am able to see up close how remorseful the attackers are. ... You never see that in real court."

Gacaca courts were introduced in the central African nation after the April 1994 genocide, which raged for 100 days. The victims were mostly from the Tutsi ethnic minority, who were targeted by Hutus over a rivalry that dates to colonial days. Some moderates from the Hutu majority who support Tutsis were also killed.

Murenzi, a Tutsi from the capital, Kigali, lost most of his extended family in the genocide. During the attacks, he was in neighboring Uganda with his parents, where he attended school at the time, the 37-year-old said.

"My mom's sisters, brothers, my uncles, they were all killed and buried in mass graves," he said.

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.

"You had about 130,000 people in jail. And there were many more outside," Rwandan President Paul Kagame said recently on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS."

The nation's justice system and the International Criminal Tribunal set up to try genocide suspects were overwhelmed, and handling all the cases in those courts would have taken hundreds of years, according to the president.  Watch Kagame justify gacacas Â»

"If you went technically to try each one of them, as the law may suggest, then you would lose out on rebuilding a nation, on bringing people back together," he said. "That's why we had to say, let's categorize responsibilities."

The leaders and masterminds of the genocide are tried in ordinary courts, and civilians who contributed to attacks or loss of life directly or indirectly go to gacacas, Kagame said.

The tribunals are lacking and fraught with problems, critics say.

"We've had serious concerns about the gacaca process and whether it meets international fair trial standards," said Georgette Gagnon, Africa director for Human Rights Watch, which has offices in Rwanda.

Some witnesses have been targeted for revenge after testifying, and due process falls short, Gagnon said, adding that the organization has suggested changes to the system to ensure basic human rights are met, but they have not been enforced.

"It is time for the process to end. And there needs to be a frank announcement on whether it has led to reconciliation," she said.

Paul Rusesabagina, whose effort to save hundreds of Tutsis was featured in the 2004 movie "Hotel Rwanda," calls gacacas "the worst idea ever."

"Gacaca traditionally means justice on the grass. Elders sitting on the grass, handing justice to someone who stole a neighbor's goat," Rusesabagina said. "Judges are people who never went to school ... who do not know anything about law."

Today, this justice is dealing with people who have committed a genocide, which is a much bigger issue, he said.

There have been calls to abolish the tribunals, which have tried about 1.5 million cases since they started in 2001, according to the Integrated Regional Information Networks, a U.N. agency. The government in June postponed plans to close gacacas.

Some analysts say the system has its advantages, by reducing congestion in prisons and allowing survivors to hear first-hand what happened to their loved ones.

Murenzi said he does not have all the answers about his relatives' deaths, and he plans to attend more gacacas -- including during a trip to Rwanda at the end of the year.

Despite the lack of information, he said, watching suspects struggle to come to terms with the attacks has brought an unusual form of comfort.

"They will never know peace. They have to live with the fact that they killed their neighbors for the rest of their lives," Murenzi said. "While the survivors can move on, they (attackers) probably never will."

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text: Hutu

text: majority

text: who

text: support

text: Tutsis

text: were

text: also

text: killed

text: Murenzi

text: a

text: Tutsi

text: from

text: the

text: capital

text: Kigali

text: lost

text: most

text: of

text: his

text: extended

text: family

text: in

text: the

text: genocide

text: During

text: the

text: attacks

text: he

text: was

text: in

text: neighboring

text: Uganda

text: with

text: his

text: parents

text: where

text: he

text: attended

text: school

text: at

text: the

text: time

text: the

text: old

text: said

text: My

text: mom

text: 's

text: sisters

text: brothers

text: my

text: uncles

text: they

text: were

text: all

text: killed

text: and

text: buried

text: in

text: mass

text: graves

text: he

text: said

text: The

text: gacacas

text: were

text: originally

text: formed

text: to

text: resolve

text: minor

text: disputes

text: among

text: villagers

text: but

text: were

text: reinvented

text: to

text: hand

text: out

text: justice

text: to

text: the

text: perpetrators

text: of

text: the

text: genocide

text: and

text: help

text: fast

text: track

text: reconciliation

text: efforts

text: in

text: the

text: broken

text: nation

text: You

text: had

text: about

text: people

text: in

text: jail

text: And

text: there

text: were

text: many

text: more

text: outside

text: Rwandan

text: President

text: Paul

text: Kagame

text: said

text: recently

text: on

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Fareed

text: Zakaria

text: GPS

text: The

text: nation

text: 's

text: justice

text: system

text: and

text: the

text: International

text: Criminal

text: Tribunal

text: set

text: up

text: to

text: try

text: genocide

text: suspects

text: were

text: overwhelmed

text: and

text: handling

text: all

text: the

text: cases

text: in

text: those

text: courts

text: would

text: have

text: taken

text: hundreds

text: of

text: years

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: president

text: Watch

text: Kagame

text: justify

text: gacacas

text: Â

text: If

text: you

text: went

text: technically

text: to

text: try

text: each

text: one

text: of

text: them

text: as

text: the

text: law

text: may

text: suggest

text: then

text: you

text: would

text: lose

text: out

text: on

text: rebuilding

text: a

text: nation

text: on

text: bringing

text: people

text: back

text: together

text: he

text: said

text: That

text: 's

text: why

text: we

text: had

text: to

text: say

text: let

text: 's

text: categorize

text: responsibilities

text: The

text: leaders

text: and

text: masterminds

text: of

text: the

text: genocide

text: are

text: tried

text: in

text: ordinary

text: courts

text: and

text: civilians

text: who

text: contributed

text: to

text: attacks

text: or

text: loss

text: of

text: life

text: directly

text: or

text: indirectly

text: go

text: to

text: gacacas

text: Kagame

text: said

text: The

text: tribunals

text: are

text: lacking

text: and

text: fraught

text: with

text: problems

text: critics

text: say

text: We

text: 've

text: had

text: serious

text: concerns

text: about

text: the

text: gacaca

text: process

text: and

text: whether

text: it

text: meets

text: international

text: fair

text: trial

text: standards

text: said

text: Georgette

text: Gagnon

text: Africa

text: director

text: for

text: Human

text: Rights

text: Watch

text: which

text: has

text: offices

text: in

text: Rwanda

text: Some

text: witnesses

text: have

text: been

text: targeted

text: for

text: revenge

text: after

text: testifying

text: and

text: due

text: process

text: falls

text: short

text: Gagnon

text: said

text: adding

text: that

text: the

text: organization

text: has

text: suggested

text: changes

text: to

text: the

text: system

text: to

text: ensure

text: basic

text: human

text: rights

text: are

text: met

text: but

text: they

text: have

text: not

text: been

text: enforced

text: It

text: is

text: time

text: for

text: the

text: process

text: to

text: end

text: And

text: there

text: needs

text: to

text: be

text: a

text: frank

text: announcement

text: on

text: whether

text: it

text: has

text: led

text: to

text: reconciliation

text: she

text: said

text: Paul

text: Rusesabagina

text: whose

text: effort

text: to

text: save

text: hundreds

text: of

text: Tutsis

text: was

text: featured

text: in

text: the

text: movie

text: Hotel

text: Rwanda

text: calls

text: gacacas

text: the

text: worst

text: idea

text: ever

text: Gacaca

text: traditionally

text: means

text: justice

text: on

text: the

text: grass

text: Elders

text: sitting

text: on

text: the

text: grass

text: handing

text: justice

text: to

text: someone

text: who

text: stole

text: a

text: neighbor

text: 's

text: goat

text: Rusesabagina

text: said

text: Judges

text: are

text: people

text: who

text: never

text: went

text: to

text: school

text: who

text: do

text: not

text: know

text: anything

text: about

text: law

text: Today

text: this

text: justice

text: is

text: dealing

text: with

text: people

text: who

text: have

text: committed

text: a

text: genocide

text: which

text: is

text: a

text: much

text: bigger

text: issue

text: he

text: said

text: There

text: have

text: been

text: calls

text: to

text: abolish

text: the

text: tribunals

text: which

text: have

text: tried

text: about

text: million

text: cases

text: since

text: they

text: started

text: in

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: Integrated

text: Regional

text: Information

text: Networks

text: a

text: U.N.

text: agency

text: The

text: government

text: in

text: June

text: postponed

text: plans

text: to

text: close

text: gacacas

text: Some

text: analysts

text: say

text: the

text: system

text: has

text: its

text: advantages

text: by

text: reducing

text: congestion

text: in

text: prisons

text: and

text: allowing

text: survivors

text: to

text: hear

text: first

text: hand

text: what

text: happened

text: to

text: their

text: loved

text: ones

text: Murenzi

text: said

text: he

text: does

text: not

text: have

text: all

text: the

text: answers

text: about

text: his

text: relatives

text: deaths

text: and

text: he

text: plans

text: to

text: attend

text: more

text: gacacas

text: including

text: during

text: a

text: trip

text: to

text: Rwanda

text: at

text: the

text: end

text: of

text: the

text: year

text: Despite

text: the

text: lack

text: of

text: information

text: he

text: said

text: watching

text: suspects

text: struggle

text: to

text: come

text: to

text: terms

text: with

text: the

text: attacks

text: has

text: brought

text: an

text: unusual

text: form

text: of

text: comfort

text: They

text: will

text: never

text: know

text: peace

text: They

text: have

text: to

text: live

text: with

text: the

text: fact

text: that

text: they

text: killed

text: their

text: neighbors

text: for

text: the

text: rest

text: of

text: their

text: lives

text: Murenzi

text: said

text: While

text: the

text: survivors

text: can

text: move

text: on

text: they

text: attackers

text: probably

text: never

text: will

question: when was the genocide

answer: 1994

question: what attacks happened?

answer: genocide that killed 800,000.

text: genocide that killed 800,000.

question: what Gacacas originally formed to resolve minor disputes?

answer: old village tribunals

text: old village tribunals

question: what Hearings have tried about 1.5 million cases since they started?

answer: the tribunals,

text: the tribunals,