A Rwandan woman who was recently deported from US for lying about her role in the genocide against Tutsis on Friday was indicted for her direct implications in the massacres that killed more than 1 million victims.
The deported woman Beatrice Munyenyezi, is the wife of Arsene Ntahobali, who, together with his mother Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, were sentenced to life in prison by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for their role in the genocide against Tutsis.
Before her deportation, she was in the past sentenced to 10 years for fraudulently obtaining US citizenship and entering the United States and securing citizenship.
During the genocide , according to the prosecution, Munyenyezi who was then living in former Butare prefecture, Southern Rwanda would stand on roadblocks and check identifications to identify Tutsi.
According to the accusation file, she was also involved in singling victims out before handing over them over to Hutu militia to be killed. For women, she would first ask the perpetrators to rape them before killing them, it said.
In 2013, Beatrice Munyenyezi, located in the American state of New Hampshire.
In 2011, another Rwandan genocide fugitive Jean-Marie Vianney Mudahinyuka was turned over by US authlorities to Rwandan officials who had issued a warrant for his arrest accusing him of participating in the massacres.
Mudahinyuka had gained access to the United States in 2000 by concealing his identity and giving a false name to an immigration officer, according to a press release issued at the time by U.S. immigration officials. He was convicted in the United States of immigration fraud and sentenced to serve 51 months in prison.
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