Agnès Ntamabyaliro Rutagwera

Agnès Ntamabyaliro Rutagwera
Born 1937
Nationality Rwanda
Known for implicated in the Rwandan Genocide

Agnès Ntamabyaliro Rutagwera (born 1937) is a Rwanda politician who was involved in the Rwandan genocide.

Life

Ntamabyariro was born in 1937 and she had a Tutsi mother and a hutu father. In 1994 she was the minister of justice in the provisional government that was held responsible for the creation of the genocide that took place in Rwanda. Starting in June 1994 after the president was assassinated the Hutu majority tried to execute their fellow nationals who were said to be Tutsi.

Ntamabyariro is particularly accused of arranging for Jean Baptiste Habyarimana to be killied. He was a Tutsi regional governor who resisted the genocide. She is said to have organised his murder in addition to inciting and planning the genocide.[1] She was somehow repatriated from Zambia in 1997. She would wait a decade before she was put on trial.[1]

She was sentenced in 2009 to life imprisonment.[1] Justin Mugenzi and Prosper Mugiraneza were also implicated in Habyarimana's murder but they were acquitted of all charges in February 2013.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Agnes Ntamabyariro, Trial, Retrieved 12 March 2016
  2. ↑ Rwanda genocide convictions overturned, 2013, AlJazeera, Retrieved 13 March 2016



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