{"id":447122,"date":"2011-06-24T12:29:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T12:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/24\/international-court-jails-first-woman-for-genocide\/"},"modified":"2011-06-24T12:29:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T12:29:28","slug":"international-court-jails-first-woman-for-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/24\/international-court-jails-first-woman-for-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"International Court Jails First Woman for Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"31.9312479635\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/rfi-logo-en.jpg\" alt=\"Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" title=\"Visit Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>24 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>The UN court for Rwanda has sentenced Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, the first woman to be charged with genocide and incitement to rape before an international court, to life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Nyiramasuhuko was found guilty on seven of the 11 genocide charges she faced. including conspiracy to commit genocide, genocide and &#8220;rape as a crime against humanity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Her son Ars\u00e8ne Shalom Ntahobali was also sentenced to life.<\/p>\n<p>They were among seven people found to have been implicated in the genocide of Tutsis in the southern Rwandan region of Butare.<\/p>\n<p>Also sentenced were:<\/p>\n<p>Former regional mayor Joseph Kanyabashi, 35 years;<\/p>\n<p>Another former regional mayor, Elie Ndayambaje, 35 years;<\/p>\n<p>Former prefect Sylvain Nsabimana, 25 years;<\/p>\n<p>His successor, Alphonse Nteziryayo, 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>Although other women have been sentenced by Rwandan courts for their role in the 1994 genocide, Nyiramasuhuko, who was families minister in 1992-1993, is the first woman to be condemned by an international court.<\/p>\n<p>She fled Rwanda for Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) after the victory of Paul Kagame&#8217;s Rwandan Popular Front. 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