EDITED EXCERPT: In 2001, the United Nations court
established that between April and June 1994 that mother-and-on
genocide-perpetrators – Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, Rwanda’s former minister for
family and women affairs, and her son, Arsene Ntahobali, a former militia
leader – with assistance of the extremist Hutu militia known as the
Interahamwe, went to Butare and abducted hundreds of ethnic Tutsis.
“Many were physically assaulted, raped and taken away to
various places in Butare, where they were killed. During the course of these
repeated attacks on vulnerable civilians, both Nyiramasuhuko and Ntahobali
ordered killings. They also ordered rapes. Ntahobali further committed rapes
and Nyiramasuhuko aided and abetted rapes,” said the judgment read out by
presiding Judge William Sekule.
[“Rwandan woman is first ever convicted of genocide,” ,
June 24, 2011]
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EXCERPT: Before the massacres, the district of Butare, on
the border with Burundi, was a happy mix of ethnic Tutsis and Hutus. The 100-day mass slaughter in the country
started on 7 April but did not begin in Butare until 21 April. Nyiramasuhuko
had ordered the then-governor to help organise the killings. But when he
refused, he was sacked and then killed. Afterwards, Nyiramasuhuko called for
militias from the capital, Kigali, to come to her home region to carry out the
mission to kill the Tutsi population.
[Josephine Hazeley Profile: Female
Rwandan killer Pauline Nyiramasuhuko BBC African Service, Jun. 24,
2011]
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