Rwandan is first-ever woman convicted of genocide

I guess as far as she was concerned, only women of a certain tribe were important enough not to leave un-raped or un-murdered. The others not only weren't important enough, she was all about it.

Wonder how she felt about men of the other tribe... well, kind of goes without saying...

You know, the fact that she was the first woman convicted of genocide makes me wonder about all the women who have aided and abetted genocide throughout history but never actually stood trial for it. I am thinking here of women like Isle Koch (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilse_Koch). She faced various charges, was found guilty, then later committed suicide, but can anyone deny that she was a genocidal agent? SS guards have been tried and found guilty for crimes against humanity over lesser acts of genocide than what The Beast of Buchenwald did.

There's plenty more. Just Google "Nazi women" and start reading. (One good summary is here. Some were tried, some found guilty, others not, some sentenced to death, others not. But I find it hard to believe that the many women involved in the Nazi war machine were as aggressively prosecuted as the men.) When I think of all the women who were part and parcel of the crimes of the Third Reich who never faced trial simply because they were women, it's almost inconceivable. But there it is.

I guess it's hair-splitting to say that she was first woman convicted of "Genocide". Actually that isn't really the case, is it? Other women before her have been tried and found guilty of what was then called 'crimes against humanity' but today would be called 'genocide'. So all in all, the headline of this article is misleading if not just plain wrong.