When she applied for US citizenship, Beatrice Munyenyezi portrayed herself as a victim of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, concealing the chilling part she played in the violence, prosecutors said yesterday in a federal court.
Holding images of the Manchester woman's immigration forms before the jury, Assistant US Attorney Aloke Chakravarty told them what Munyenyezi failed to fill out: that she had manned a roadblock outside her family's hotel, checked identification cards and sent members of the Tutsi ethnic group to be either raped or slaughtered.
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