Alleged Rwandan Genocide Participant Could be Stripped of Citizenship and Deported

From WMUR:

Prosecutors and defense attorneys are describing the federal trial of a Rwandan woman as, “A case about lies.”

Beatrice Munyenyezi, 41, is accused of lying about her role in the Rwandan genocide while applying to become a U.S. citizen.

Munyenyezi wiped back a few tears as she sat and awaited the start of the trial that could end with her stripped of her citizenship and deported back to Rwanda.

In his opening statement, Assistant U.S. Attorney John Capin told the jury that the defendant lied about her past and then repeated those lies to gain entry to the United States.

Capin said prosecutors will prove that Munyenyezi took part in the genocide that happened in Rwanda in 1994 and that she “encouraged killers to kill, rapists to rape.”

He said there was a roadblock set up at a hotel owned by Munyenyezi’s husband’s family and that the purpose of the roadblock was to separate ethnic Tutsis for slaughter. Capin said Munyenyezi took part in singling people out to be killed and decided, in some cases, who would be killed or taken to a rape room. Read more….

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