The impetus for the work Gacaca, Weeping Woman. The genocide trials, Rwanda 2004 (2014-2018) was the legal settlement of the terrible drama that arose from the genocide that took place in Rwanda in 1995. Gacaca is a traditional legal system from Rwanda, in which a confession from a not yet proven guilty suspect resulted in a much lower penalty than if a suspect denied or remained silent and was still found guilty. This system can be seen as a variant of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. For victims of a crime, the silence or denial of the committed crime by the perpetrator is an additional heavy traumatic experience. The painting, with all its directness and rawness, brings the cruelty of history back to the reality in which both the accused and the victims find themselves after acts of violence. A reality in which perpetrators were often neighbours or fellow villagers of victims, and a new way had to be found to interact with each other.