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Article: Ex-woman minister accused of Rwandan genocide innocent: witness
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- February 2, 2005
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Ex-woman minister accused of Rwandan genocide innocent: witness Ex-
woman minister accused of Rwandan genocide innocent: witness
DAR ES SALAAM, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- The first witness called upon to
defend a former Rwandan minister accused of genocide and crimes
against humanity described the accused as innocent, local press
reported on Wednesday.
Newspaper The Guardian quoted the witness, a Hutu woman codenamed
as WFGS to safeguard her safety, told the trial court of the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) that Pauline
Nyiramasuhuko had not practiced the Hutu-Tutsi ethnic discrimination
as alleged by the prosecution.
Nyiramasuhuko had served as the Rwandan minister of family ...