Pauline Nyiramauhuko, former Rwanda women’s minister has been sentenced to life in person for her role in the massacres and the rape of Tutsi women and girls during Rwanda genocide.
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The 65 years old Pauline was handed life sentence after 10 years trial together with her son and four other former officials.
Pauline Nyiramasuhuko was born in Ndora community, in the province of Butare. Life was not a silver of gold for her and her other member of her family. Pauline started her education life at the Ecole sociale de Karubanda high school. There, she meets Agathe Habyarimana, who later became President of Rwanda in 1973.
In the 1986, Pauline attended the National University of Rwanda were she study law. She was Minister for Family Welfare and the Advancement of Women in Habyarimana's government from 1992.
During the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, Pauline is said to have orchestrated a trap in the city of Butare, where she allegedly promised besieged residents food and shelter in a local stadium. Refugees’ were raped, tortured, and killed by Hutu paramilitary group the Interahmwe after arriving at the stadium. Pauline is said to have told the militiamen "before you kill the women, you need to rape them". She left Rwanda in 1994 following the Genocide and went to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She was arrested in 1997 in Nairobi, Kenya along with her son, Arsene Shalom Ntahobali, the former Prime Minister, Jean Kambanda and eight others.
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