U.N. court convicts woman in Rwandan genocide

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Source: CBSNews

The U.N. Court trying suspects of the 1994 Rwanda genocide found a female former government minister and her son guilty of war crimes on Friday and gave both life sentences, marking the first time a woman has been convicted of genocide.


Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, Rwanda's former minister for family and women affairs, and her son, Arsene Ntahobali, a former militia leader, were both found guilty of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, including rape.


The court found that the mother and son helped to abduct hundreds of ethnic Tutsis who were assaulted, raped and killed in the southern region of Butare.




Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/24/501364/main20074021.shtml?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesAreaMain;cbsnewsLeadStoriesSecondary

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1. Life Sentences in Rwanda Genocide Case

Source: The New York Times

PARIS — A United Nations tribunal on Friday sentenced Rwanda’s former minister for family and women’s affairs and her son to life prison terms for their roles in the 1994 genocide and ordering the rape of women and girls.

Four others were also sentenced by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, which is based in Arusha, Tanzania.

Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, 65, the former minister, is the first woman to be convicted of genocide by the tribunal, though other women have been sentenced by local courts in Rwanda. Her case stands out because in 1994, the court said, she used her ministerial powers against Tutsi women, helping to create Hutu militias in her home district of Butare in southern Rwanda. The mission of the Hutu militias throughout Rwanda, was to “exterminate” as many members of the Tutsi population as possible.

The killing frenzy in the summer of 1994 left an estimated 800,000 people dead, most of them ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutu.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/world/africa/25rwanda.html

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2. Will justice ever come to America?

Bush/Chaney.

[Kelvin Mace]

3. Nope

Next question.

(and just so you know, my answer is suffused in bitterness, not flippancy).