The village trials are also very slow at gaining pace.
Many survivors find themselves living next door to people who took part in the murders, but have not yet been made to stand in front of the Gacaca.
In an effort by the government to erase the ethnic divide, citizens are now encouraged to call themselves Rwandan rather than Hutu or Tutsi.
Ethnic identity cards, introduced during the Belgian colonial regime, have been abolished, and it is forbidden to make any statistical breakdowns by tribe.
But critics say the Tutsi-dominated government, which sprang out of the rebel army that finally stopped the killings in 1994, is trying too hard -- that in his efforts to ensure that nothing like it ever happens again, the country's president, Paul Kagame, is trying to control every detail of life, that he has transformed Rwanda into an autocracy.
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