00:01France's Paris Court of Appeal has ruled that investigations should resume against Rwanda's former First Lady for her alleged complicity
00:09in genocide.
00:10Last year, a lower court dismissed charges that Agatha Biarimana had played a role in the 1994 genocide, saying there
00:17was insufficient evidence against her.
00:19Now in her late 80s, she's lived in France since being evacuated by French paratroopers in the early days of
00:25the killing spree.
00:26It was triggered by the assassination of her husband, the former Hutu president of Rwanda, Juvenal Habia Rimana.
00:32Violence, over a period of 100 days, saw between 800,000 and a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus brutally killed,
00:40mainly by Hutus.
00:42Plaintiffs allege that the ex-First Lady headed the Akazu, or inner circle of Hutu power, and played an active
00:48role in planning and carrying out the massacres.
00:50Her lawyers described the decision to reopen the case as incomprehensible, saying there's no evidence to seriously support their claims.
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