EXCERPT: Working with her friend the local councillor,
Odette Nyirabagenzi, Mukandutiye is accused of organising the militia in
Rugenge, in central Kigali. The two women were leading local members of one of
the political parties which planned the 1994 massacres of Tutsis and the Hutu
opposition. Witnesses say they appeared several times at the two churches where
Tutsis were hiding. [Lindsey Hilsum, “Women Killers in Rwanda,” Humanitarian
Exchange Magazine, Iss. 4 Sep. 1995]
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EXCERPT: Angeline Mukandutiye is a woman who actively
participated in the Genocide, mainly by training and arming Interahamwe militia
in collaboration with Colonel Renzaho Tharcisse who was the prefect of Kigali
Ville during the Genocide. Renzaho was sentenced to life in jail by the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha. … Mukandutiye
supervised elections of the Interahamwe committee in the sector; the source was
elected vice-president. Among the attacks the source remembers include one at
Centre d’Aprentissage des Langues Africaine (CELA), near Saint Paul church
where more than 70 Tutsi were killed on April 21. Mukandutiye would lead every
attack. She would wear a military jacket and carry a gun. Prior to attacking,
she briefed the group and planned for night patrols and roadblocks. She
demanded daily reports. She and Nyirabagenzi provided lists of Tutsi to be
killed. Some of Mukandutiye’s victims includes Andreya Kameya, editor of Rwanda
Rushya newspaper and a senior member of the Liberal Party (PL). Mukandutiye and
her men discovered Kameya’s hiding place, tied him to a car and dragged him
around the main roundabout of Kigali. [Jean de la Croix
Tabaro, “From DRC Jungles to Jail: Genocide Architect Mukandutiye Starts
Life Sentence in Rwanda,” KT Express, Dec. 28, 2019]
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EXCERPT: Marie Grace Mukabyagaju, a Genocide survivor told
RBA; "Angelina Mukandutiye was among the most powerful Interahamwe Militia
leaders during the Tutsi Genocide, in this area that used to be the Sector of
Rugenge. Her house was a gathering point for the Militia, where they gathered
for instructions in the morning before the killings began and afterward; they
would take to her the National IDs of those they had killed and she would
rebuke them when some individuals were found not to have been killed yet. That
was the case with one of my co-workers. They killed her husband and children
and when the killers presented to Angelina their ID Cards, she asked why that
of Agnes, my co-worker, was not among them."
Thérèse Mukagatare, another Genocide survivor said; "My
son, Gasarabwe was taken on that date of the 14th, along with 5 other men. We
were all in St Paul. The killers were all following her instructions."
[Yanditswe, “Genocide survivors welcome arrest of Genocide
perpetrator Mukandutiye,” RBA (Rwanda Broadcasting Agency), Dec. 30, 2019]
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Other Sources:
Jean De La Croix Tabaro, “Women
who killed in the Genocide,” The New Times (Rwanda), May 26,
2014
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Dec. 21, 2019 – returns to Rwanda.
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