Catholic nun jailed for 30 years for her part in Rwandan genocide

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-11-10-rwanda-nun_x.htm

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Catholic nun has been sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping militias kill hundreds of people hiding in a hospital during Rwanda's 1994 genocide, an official said Friday.

Theophister Mukakibibi was sentenced by a traditional gacaca court for helping Hutu militiamen to kill ethnic Tutsis seeking refuge from the slaughter in Butare hospital, where she worked.

"She was responsible for selecting Tutsis and would throw them out of the hospital and the militia would then kill them," said Jean Baptiste Ndahumba, president of the local gacaca court in Butare town. "This nun was organizing people to be killed." She was jailed Thursday.

She would also hold regular meetings with Hutu extremist groups and denied food to Tutsis hiding in the hospital, he said by telephone. About 20 people testified against her, he added.

In the massacre, 100,000 people were killed in the southeastern prefecture of Butare.

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1. It seeems that her tribal loyalties went much deeper than her Christianity.

I'm surprised she didn't get a life sentence or the death penalty. Thirty years is a rather light sentence if she did what she's accused of.