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Rwandan expelled from US given life genocide term

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. Beatrice Munyenyezi, 54, who was deported from the United States to Kigali in 2021, was sentenced to life imprisonment on April 12, 2024, by a court in Huye for her role in the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsis in 1994. [Simon Wohlfahrt / AFP

A Rwandan woman expelled to her homeland three years ago from the United States has been given a life sentence for her role in the country's 1994 genocide, The New Times newspaper reported Saturday.

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