They included charges of genocide , conspiracy to commit genocide , war crimes and crimes against humanity including rape and persecution . Nyiramasuhuko is the only woman to be convicted by the U.N.-backed court for Rwanda . She was minister for family and women 's affairs at the time of the mass killings . The U.N. tribunal found that she had "failed in her duty as a public official" when she ordered the killing of more than 800,000 people during Rwanda's 1994 genocide, which began with an attack Some 800,000 people , mainly ethnic Tutsis , died in the violence .
Nyiramasuhuko is the only woman to be convicted by the U.N.-backed court for Rwanda . She was minister for family and women 's affairs at the time of the mass killings . The U.N. tribunal found that she had "failed in her duty as a public official" when she ordered the killing of more than 800,000 people during Rwanda's 1994 genocide, which began with an attack Some 800,000 people , mainly ethnic Tutsis , died in the violence .