US immigrant’s dream ends in NH, accused of aiding Rwanda genocide

By Lynne Tuohy, AP
Sunday, August 8, 2010

US immigrant’s dream ends with genocide allegation

CONCORD, N.H. — Beatrice Munyenyezi (moon-yehn-YEH’-zee) brought her young daughters to the United States from war-ravaged Rwanda in 1998 and focused on the American Dream: private schooling for her girls, a home with a swimming pool, a sport utility vehicle.

She financed her comfortable lifestyle in New Hampshire with mortgages, loans and credit cards, then filed for bankruptcy in 2008. Now she sits behind bars, held without bond and awaiting trial on federal charges of citizenship fraud for allegedly lying about involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Authorities say she was an extremist Hutu who killed and enabled the rapes of untold Tutsi victims — not the innocent refugee she claimed to be to gain entry into the U.S. She has pleaded not guilty.

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