Case No. ICTR-96-4-T - International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

and called Tabita from there. He asked her where Alexia was, and she said she did notknow. Witness N testified that Tabita was then taken in the vehicle back to the mine.There, she said, they made her get out and told her to get in front of the vehicle. TheAccused threatened to run her over and again asked her for the whereabouts of the peoplein question. She said Tabita was afraid and said that they had hidden in a sorghum fieldbut that she did not know where they were. According to her testimony, Witness N wasthen told by the Accused that she was a "poisonous woman" and that she had hiddenthese people. She said they then began to strike her with their gun[s].394. Witness N said that she and Tabita were then taken in the vehicle to a roadblock,where they picked up Victim Z, and they were then taken to Gishyeshye Sector. WitnessN testified that she was at this time "almost dead" from the beating she had suffered.When they arrived, Witness N said she was thrown on the road, next to Victim Z, andthey began to beat him with a club. She said the Accused then instructed Victim Z to beather. She said Victim Z stood up and began to beat her, and that he beat her several timeson her leg with a club. During this time, she testified that the Accused was standing nextto them near the vehicle. Witness N said her hands were then tied in the back with a pieceof cloth, the other end of which was used to strangle Victim Z. She said they tightenedthe cloth, and his eyes almost came out of their sockets. Victim Z then said that hethought he knew who had hidden Alexia. She said [they] then started hitting him again,very hard, and the Accused asked [him] to hit her hard, to make her talk. Witness N saidshe threatened to bite [him] if [he] continued to hit her.395. Witness N testified that she was then taken in the vehicle with Victim Z to aroadblock and there they picked up a person identified as Victim V(Witness A). She saidthey were taken to Victim V's house, where they were taken out of the vehicle andthrown on the ground. According to the testimony, they started beating Victim Z againwith the club and they also beat Victim V and told him to bring out the person he washiding. Victim V said he was not hiding anybody. On direct examination, Witness N saidthe Accused told Victim V to raise his arms so that they could shoot him. On crossexamination,Witness N testified that Mugenzi told Victim V to raise his arms so thatthey could shoot him. She said they did not shoot him, and that the Accused told VictimV that they would continue searching for Alexia and that if they did not find her he wouldhave to die.396. Witness N testified that as a result of the beatings she received, her arm is limp. Shesaid that she can no longer walk as she did before and that she needs help to get dressed.She testified that she can no longer work on the farm. The Trial Chamber notes thatWitness N walked with difficulty, aided by a walking stick.397. Witness C (Victim Z), a Hutu farmer, testified that he knew Alexia, that she was aTutsi teacher and the wife of Ntereye. He said that she hid in his house during April 1994and that she had come to his house because she realized that he had not participated in thekillings. Witness C testified that some Interahamwe came to his house while he was outharvesting coffee. He said one of his children came to look for him after the child hadbeen beaten and asked where Alexia was. Witness C returned to his house and found the