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Article: A woman on trial for Rwanda's massacre; Pauline Nyiramasuhuko is the first woman charged with genocide and using rape as a crime against humanity.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 7, 2003
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Byline: Danna Harman Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
ARUSHA, TANZANIA -- With her hair pulled neatly back, her heavy glasses beside her on the table, she looks more like someone's dear greataunt than what she is alleged to be: a high-level organizer of Rwanda's 1994 genocide who authorized the rape and murder of countless men and women. Wearing a green flowery dress one day, a pressed cream-colored skirt and blouse set the next, the defendant listens stoically to the litany of accusations against her.
From behind a heavy blue curtain, the faint voice of a witness known only as "R.E." details the horror: Her father was clubbed to death; her ...