A RWANDAN woman who was deported by the United States and is facing charges related to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda appeared in court on Wednesday and denied the charges against her.
Speaking in a court in the Rwandan capital on Wednesday, Beatrice Munyenyezi sobbed and said: “It’s fake. I wonder why,” adding that she was a pregnant teenager during the genocide and did not have power to do any of the things she stands accused of, such as mounting roadblocks where ethnic Tutsis were then killed.
Last month, the 51-year-old woman was flown into Kigali, accompanied by U.S. federal agents. A spokesman for the Rwanda Bureau of Investigation then said on state TV that she would face seven charges related to the genocide ranging from murder to complicity in rape.
During the genocide between April and July of 1994, some 800,000 people were slaughtered, mainly from the ethnic Tutsi
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