Before the massacres, the district of Butare, on the border with Burundi, was a happy mix of ethnic Tutsis and Hutus. Pauline Nyiramasuhuko had ordered the then-governor to help organise the killings, she called for militias from the capital, Kigali, to come to her home region to carry out the mission to kill the Tutsi population.
During the course of these repeated attacks on vulnerable civilians, both Nyiramasuhuko and Ntahobali ordered killings. They also ordered rapes in the southern region of Butare.
Nyiramasuhuko herself is the first and only woman to be tried and found guilty by the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. The court on Friday also sentenced to life in prison a former mayor, Elie Ndayambaje. Three others in the joint trial were given sentences ranging between 25 and 35 years. The court said all six would be credited with time served.
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