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confused by poor translations of evidence from Rwanda. At her second trial, Munyenyezi denied that she had lied and continued to claim that she did not take part in the genocide. However, witnesses at both trials accused her of atrocities, including ordering militia members to commit rape and rewarding them with food and beer. One survivor, Thierry
Sebaganwa, stated that Munyenyezi had mocked him by telling him that his mother had just been murdered. Others recalled that Munyenyezi had ordered soldiers to rape a nun before personally shooting her. Munyenyezi was found guilty in February 2013 of lying to obtain her citizenship and received the maximum sentence of ten years, with an order that she would be deported after her sentence was complete.
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imprisoned and executed. Munyenyezi herself commanded the roadblock where she inspected the identity cards of those who wished to pass and singled out those who were Tutsi, whom she took aside to be killed. Female Tutsis who were identified were raped by the
Interhamwe before they were killed. Munyenyezi, nicknamed "The Commander", was alleged to have personally committed acts of violence against the Tutsi, including beating a child to death with a club after being mocked by fellow Interhamwe members for never having killed a Tutsi.
170:. She sought political asylum in the United States where she successfully applied citing persecution in her home country. Almost two decades later, in 2013, a US court prosecuted Beatrice for lying about her political affiliation during the Rwandan genocide. She was stripped of her American citizenship, imprisoned and eventually deported back to Rwanda, where she was given a life sentence.
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Her husband and others were found guilty of killing refugees, orphans and patients from the local hospital and of taking Tutsi prisoners and arranging for them to be executed. In particular he and his mother organised and staffed a roadblock outside their family's hotel where Tutsi were identified,
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