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ARUSHA, Tanzania — The U.N. court trying suspects of the 1994 Rwanda genocide found a female former government minister and her son guilty of war crimes Friday and gave both life sentences, marking the first time a woman has been convicted of genocide.
Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, Rwanda’s former minister for family and women affairs, and her son, Arsene Ntahobali, a former militia leader, were both found guilty of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, including rape.
The court found that the pair helped to abduct hundreds of ethnic Tutsis who were assaulted, raped and killed in the southern region of Butare.
