02/21/2012 10:32:00 AM EST
Rwandan woman to stand trial in N.H. on immigration charges
"A federal courtroom in New Hampshire is about to become a laboratory
for analyzing the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and whether a Manchester
immigrant played a role in it. Prosecutors say 41-year-old Beatrice Munyenyezi of Rwanda
lied on applications to enter the United States in 1995 and obtain
citizenship in 2003. They say she ordered the rapes and murders of
Tutsis in Butare during the three-month genocide of about 800,000
people. She denied any involvement. Jury
selection in the citizenship fraud trial begins tomorrow. Most of the
witnesses will travel from Rwanda and speak no English." - Associated Press, Feb. 21, 2012.