July 11, 1946 - Pauline Nyiramasuhuko
Her conviction by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda marked a historic first: no woman had previously been found guilty of genocide or of inciting rape as a weapon of war by an international court. She held a ministerial portfolio explicitly dedicated to the welfare of women at the time she directed militias to commit sexual violence against them — a contradiction that gives her case particular weight in the legal and historical record of the 1994 genocide.
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Pauline Nyiramasuhuko (born 1 April 1946) is a Rwandan politician who was the Minister for Family Welfare and the Advancement of Women. She was convicted of having incited troops and militia to carry out rape during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. She was tried for genocide and incitement to rape as part of the "Butare Group" at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania. In June 2011, she was convicted of seven charges and sentenced to life imprisonment. Nyiramasuhuko is the first woman to be convicted of genocide by the ICTR, and the first woman to be convicted of genocidal rape.
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