Kigali — SOUTHERN PROVINCE: NGOMA - A Catholic nun has appeared before the Ngoma Gacaca court over her alleged role in the 1994 Rwanda Genocide. Sister Theopister Mukakibibi, of Ngoma Sector, Huye District was on November 1, arraigned in a Gacaca court for allegedly killing people at the University Central Hospital of Butare (UCHB). Mukakibibi, faces charges of collaborating with military officers of Ecole Superieur Officielle (ESO), a military training wing, and militias, to kill the hospital staffs suspected to be Tutsis. She is also accused of starving patients with an intent of killing them and other ethnic based discriminations of the needy and critically injured persons at the hospital between 1990-1994.

"To give porridge to critically ill and hungry patients, Sister Theopiste first asked for one's identity card," a witness told the court.

Dressed in a white veil and accompanied by an entourage of other nuns, symbolising religious fraternity and solidarity, Mukakibibi vehemently denied all charges against her.

She said, "I was a simple, social and a friendly person who never connived with the military and militia to cause deaths of any Rwandan or Tutsis at the Central University Hospital of Butare."

Over eleven witnesses, majority of whom Genocide survivors, testified to have vividly seen Mukabibi driven and escorted by military officers, giving instructions and whereabouts of Tutsis.

She personally attributes the killings at the hospital to soldiers.

"My conscious does not condemn me. So, no need to seek forgiveness," she told The New Times during a one hour session of the Inyangamuyo's final judgment after a closed door evaluation of all testimonies.

After the judges' evaluation of all witnesses accounts for and against, Mukakibibi's case was adjourned to November 8, due to what the judges referred to as "few testimonies".

Two women, one in a wheel chair ardently accused the nun of accomplice in the killings in which her relatives died.

Though the Church had a moral responsibility to use its powers to deter the occurrence of the Genocide, priests and pastors face are alleged to have either actively participated or stood helplessly and watched their flock get killed at the height of 1994 Genocide that left an estimated one million Tutsi and moderate Hutu.

If convicted, she will be another Rwandan nun after Belgian-based nuns to be have been convicted of Genocide and other crimes against humanity in the 1994 Rwanda Genocide.

Twelve years after Genocide, the Catholic Church, has not apologised or regretted its alleged role in the acts against humanity in 1994 Rwandan Genocide.