Agnès Ntamabyaliro Rutagwera (born 1937) is a Rwandan politician. Though she was of mixed

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descent and children of intermarriage were targets during the genocide, Rutagwera has been sentenced for her involvement in the genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda. Notably, she was accused of arranging the murder of Tutsi politician Jean-Baptiste Habyalimana, who resisted the genocide.

Life

Ntamabyariro was born in 1937 and she had a

mother and a

father. In 1994 she was the minister of justice in the provisional government that was held responsible for the genocide that took place in Rwanda. Ntamabyariro is particularly accused of arranging for Jean-Baptiste Habyalimana to be killed. He was a Tutsi prefect who resisted the genocide. She is said to have organised his murder in addition to inciting and planning the genocide.Agnes Ntamabyariro
, TRIAL International, Retrieved 30 December 2017. Ntamabyariro was abducted on 27 May 1997 from her home in

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, ostensibly by the Zambian immigration service. The

n government denied any involvement, however, and

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raised concerns about her safety. She was later discovered in a prison in

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. She would wait a decade before she was put on trial. She was sentenced in 2009 to life imprisonment by the Rwandan government. Justin Mugenzi and Prosper Mugiraneza were also implicated in Habyalimana's murder but they were acquitted of all charges in February 2013.

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